Saturday, August 30, 2014

Labor Day Weekend Newsbites: Sat., Aug. 30 thru Mon., Sept. 1, 2014



Mornin' folks!

Here's the current Drudge headline (as I hit "enter"):

"King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is "rapid" action."

Nice, huh?

Let me ask you... say the King is right... say the U.S. is hit a major blow within the next few months - or even the next couple years...

(*PURSED LIPS*)

What will your reaction be?

Will you demand Obama's head on a silver platter?

Fort Hood #1...

The Boston Marathon Bombing...

Fort Hood #2

Benghazi...

Forget what happens in the upcoming November Elections. Lay political reality aside - which party controls which branch, what's feasible and what's not.

If Barack Hussein Obama allows yet another successful attack up us... will you embrace his incompetence or finally rebel against it?

Obama... Hillary Clinton... Kerry... Holder... Panetta... Petraeus...

The level of incompetence... corruption... moral and ethical lapses...

The IRS Scandal... Obama's Secret Service and "Hookergate"... the lies... the cover-ups...

The deficits... the debt... the inflation... the rich getting richer while the middle class is slowly ground into dust...

How much will you dumb, irresponsible bastards who still - to this very day - support Obama take?

I know... I know... homosexuality is all the rage - but do we ALL need to take it up the ass?!

On the flip side...

Homosexual or heterosexual... aren't we ALL a bit tired of getting screwed up the ass by these incompetent pricks?

Happy Friggin' Labor Day Weekend.

4 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/28/Feds-Agree-Buy-Ads-on-Mexican-Media-Place-Billboards-on-Border-to-Reach-Deported-Illegals-Allowed-to-Return

As part of a legal settlement that will allow some illegal immigrants who deported themselves from Southern California to return to the United States, the federal government has agreed to advertise the settlement on various Mexican and Spanish-language media outlets.

* THIS... IS... INSANE...!

The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit last year on behalf of eleven illegal immigrants who deported themselves. The settlement reached on Wednesday will only cover "longtime California residents with relatives who are U.S. citizens and... young migrants whose parents brought them into the country illegally" who deported themselves between 2009 and 2013. An ACLU official has indicated that there were nearly 250,000 people who were "deported voluntarily from Southern California between 2009 and 2013" and estimated to the Los Angeles Times that the "number of repatriations could reach into the hundreds or thousands."

The U.S. government, through ad buys online, in print, on billboards, and on radio stations, will hope to reach "friends and family of the affected class" in Southern California and Mexico.

* FOLKS... NOTE... NOTHING IN THE STORY ABOUT THE FEDS CHALLENGING THIS RIDICULOUS ORDER AND APPEALING UP THE CHAIN! THAT'S BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT OBAMA AND HOLDER WANT! THEY WANT THIS INSANITY!

According to the settlement, the federal government will advertise on television channels like Univision, ESPN Deportes, MundoFox, El Universal, and the Univision Deportes Network. They will also partner with People en Espanol and even the Mexico National Football Team in addition to placing billboards "in high population Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali, as well as focusing placements near border crossings."

* FOLKS... THE MADNESS IS ACCELERATING, NOT DECCELERATING.

U.S. officials will also place "radio ads :60 in length... on top Spanish speaking radio stations near the Mexico/U.S. border." Those who search for "Lopez Case," "Lopez Class Action," "Voluntary Return to Mexico," "Rights for Detainees," "Detained by ICE," and "Returned to Mexico by ICE" will also be targeted with information about the settlement.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.html

The speech by former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’

Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate change.

But seven years after his warning, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that, far from vanishing, the Arctic ice cap has expanded for the second year in succession – with a surge, depending on how you measure it, of between 43% and 63% since 2012.

* OOPS...

To put it another way, an area the size of Alaska, America’s biggest state, was open water two years ago, but is again now covered by ice.

* DOUBLE OOPS!

Politicians such as Al Gore have often insisted that climate science is ‘settled’ and have accused those who question their forecasts of being climate change ‘deniers’.

Those who just a few years ago were warning of ice-free summers by 2014 included U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who made the same bogus prediction in 2009, while Mr Gore has repeated it numerous times – notably in a speech to world leaders at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009, in an effort to persuade them to agree a new emissions treaty. Mr. Gore – whose office yesterday failed to respond to a request for comment – insisted then: ‘There is a 75% chance that the entire polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.’

Professor Andrew Shepherd, of Leeds University, an expert in climate satellite monitoring, said yesterday: ‘It is clear from the measurements we have collected that the Arctic sea ice has experienced a significant recovery in thickness over the past year. ‘It seems that an unusually cool summer in 2013 allowed more ice to survive through to last winter. This means that the Arctic sea ice pack is thicker and stronger than usual...

* UH-HUH...

Judith Curry, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said last night: ‘The Arctic sea ice spiral of death seems to have reversed.’

* SETTLED... SCIENCE...

* UH-HUH...

William R. Barker said...

* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/08/29/irs-obamacare-missing-emails-epa-transparency-congressional-investigation-column/14743175/

The [constitutionist] watchdog group Judicial Watch revealed this week that [President Obama's] IRS Deputy Assistant Chief Counsel Thomas Kane admitted that disgraced former official Lois Lerner's government-issued Blackberry was "wiped clean" and "removed as scrap for disposal" in June 2012.

This took place after Congress had opened an investigation into Lerner's role in using the IRS to target conservative non-profit groups.

* AGAIN...

* This took place after Congress had opened an investigation into Lerner's role in using the IRS to target conservative non-profit groups.

For a scandal that is frequently derided as "fake," it is amazing how often real evidence disappears.

The disappearing act is so frequent, it is reasonable to wonder whether it is really a systematic attempt to destroy evidence of abuse of power.

* YA THINK...?!?!

Explanations regarding Lerner's thousands of missing emails have always been hard to swallow.

The initial story was that the records were accidentally lost when Lerner's desktop computer crashed.

But given the nature of networked and cloud computing, as well as government requirements for redundant email backup systems, this account never made sense.

It was also curious that the emails were only lost in the specific timeframe of the investigation, and that Lerner's hard drive had hastily been destroyed.

* I'M PLEASED THAT USA TODAY HAS RUN THIS PIECE, BUT... COM'ON... (*ROLLING MY EYES*)... WHY NOT JUST START - FIRST SENTENCE - WITH AN ACTUAL ACCUSATION INSTEAD OF ALL THIS "AMAZING" CRAP... THIS "REASONABLE TO WONDER" NONSENSE?

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)

When more than a dozen other IRS officials whose emails were being sought suffered similar computer failures and hard drive recycling, and backup tapes were either missing, written-over or deleted.

* AGAIN...

When more than a dozen other IRS officials whose emails were being sought suffered similar computer failures and hard drive recycling, and backup tapes were either missing, written-over or deleted.

This inadvertent, accidental destruction of evidence...

* SEE WHAT I MEAN, FOLKS; THEY CAN'T EVEN BRING THEMSELVES TO WRITE "This SUPPOSEDLY inadvertent, accidental destruction of evidence..."

(*SNICKER*)

...is so thorough that the House Armed Services Committee asked the Defense Department to scour the files of the NSA in hopes that maybe the emails would turn up there. Last month Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered IRS officials to explain under oath what had been done to find the emails and to make clear why they were missing.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress he had "moved heaven and Earth" trying to find the lost Lerner emails. But now comes word that the missing records may in fact exist, deep in a secretive government database established for continuity of operations in case of an attack or other disaster. However, a Justice Department attorney looking into the matter said that the files are "too hard" to retrieve, as though agents would be sorting through an endless "Raiders of the Lost Ark" -style warehouse.

(*SNORT*)

* FOLKS... THIS "JUSTICE DEPARTMENT" ATTORNEY SHOULD BE IN HANDCUFFS...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

Though this latest revelation is now disputed, it is hard to credit official explanations when problems at the IRS are hardly isolated. Other agencies under investigation are suffering similar technical difficulties.

* YEP! (DID YOU KNOW THIS...??? IF NOT... ASK YOURSELF... WHY DIDN'T YOU KNOW IT? YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS... RIGHT?

The EPA claimed that emails being sought by Congressional investigators went missing due to a computer crash affecting the very employee under investigation.

(*SNORT*)

And administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Marilyn Tavenner told Congress that she regularly zapped emails to keep her inbox tidy, but only after forwarding copies to subordinates for filing. This was before a message turned up from Tavenner on handling ObamaCare problems in which recipients were instructed, "please delete this email."

* AND AGAIN... NO HANDCUFFS... NO PERP WALK... JUST BUSINESS AS USUAL WITHIN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.

To believe that the IRS scandal is the creation of President Obama's political opponents you have to believe an amazing series of events is just coincidence. That takes a more partisan cast of mind than to wonder whether this might be circumstantial evidence of a desperate effort to obstruct justice.

* USA TODAY, FOLKS; NOT EXACTLY THE FLAGSHIP PUBLICATION OF THE VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY.