Folks...
(*CHUCKLE*)
I don't regularly read "NewsMax" nor do I watch
"NewsMaxTV."
Believe me when I tell you... Cindy Sheehan's name is not
one I've thought of in years!
This said... I must begin today's newsbiting by bringing
the following to your attention:
Tuesday on NewsmaxTV's "The Steve Malzberg Show," anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan [recounted how] in 2005 Nancy Pelosi and top Democrat leaders in the House and Senate said to her face that if she helped them get elected they would end the wars completely, but now they have stopped supporting her even in light of President Barack Obama's escalation of drone attacks.
* I BELIEVE SHEEHAN.
* DOES ANYONE - DO ANY OF YOU READING THIS - DOUBT
SHEEHAN IS BEING HONEST REGARDING PELOSI AND THOSE (UNNAMED, UNFORTUNATELY) "TOP
DEMOCRAT LEADERS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE" (CIRCA 2005) CONCERNING WHAT
THEY PROMISED HER?
Sheehan said the Left anti-war movement is being ignored by the democrats because they are "reverse racists" who are supporting Obama only because he is an African-American.
* HMM... "LEFT ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT...???" DIDN'T
THEY SIMPLY DISAPPEAR AFTER OBAMA'S INAUGURATION...???
* AS TO THIS "REVERSE RACISM" CHARGE... WELL...
PERHAPS A BIT. MAINLY THOUGH IT'S SIMPLE COWARDICE... FEAR THAT THEY'LL BE PUNISHED
IF THEY GO AGAINST THEIR PARTY'S TITULAR LEADER - PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN
OBAMA.
* COWARDICE... LACK OF INTEGRITY... SHORT-SIGHTED
PERSONAL PETTY INTERESTS...
(*SHRUG*)
Sheehan said, "I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire."
* WHO BELIEVES THESE POLICIES ARE TRULY OBAMA'S POLICIES?
SERIOUSLY?! CALL THE QUESTION "CONSPIRATORIAL" IF YOU MUST... BUT
ANSWER IT - AT LEAST TO YOURSELF; ARE YOU 100% SURE... EVEN 99% SURE... THAT
OBAMA IS REALLY CALLING THE SHOTS INSTEAD OF BEING A FIGUREHEAD FOR SOME CABAL
WHICH IS ACTUALLY CALLING THE SHOTS?
* FOLKS... EITHER OBAMA IS A PAWN OR HE'S NOT. IF HE'S A
PAWN... THEN A PAWN OF WHOM?
* OR... IS OBAMA TRULY THE BRILLIANT FREE-THINKER
PORTRAYED VIA THE 2008 ELECTION... ONLY HE DELIBERATELY EMPLOYS HIS
"GENIUS" SO AS TO WREAK HAVOC AND HARM AMERICA... ALL AS PART OF HIS
LONG-TERM PROMISE TO "FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE" AMERICA?
* OR... IS OBAMA THE DUMBEST MAN TO HAVE EVER SERVED AS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND ALL THESE BLUNDERS ARE EXACTLY THAT...
BLUNDERS... THE RESULT OF BLATANT INCOMPETENCE?
* ANYWAY, FOLKS... I'LL LEAVE YOU TO PONDER...
7 comments:
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://online.wsj.com/articles/white-house-down-1412119337
On a July night in 1976 a Washington taxi driver named Chester Plummer became the first person killed on the White House grounds. Wielding a length of pipe, Plummer refused to surrender after scaling the fence and was shot in the chest by a Secret Service officer on the north lawn. "That's what guns are for," as an old Gerald Ford hand reminded us the other day.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Plummer
Whatever resolution the agents of the Secret Service used to call upon to protect the lives of the President and his family has apparently long since departed this once-elite corps. This month's astonishing breach of the White House, supposedly one of the world's most secure complexes, has exposed a culture of incompetence and duplicity. Government failures are legion, but rarely are they so dangerous.
* THERE IS INDEED A CULTURE OF INCOMPETENCE AND DUPLICITY... BUT THE PROBLEM GOES BEYOND WHETHER THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST FAMILY AND OTHER PROTECTEES ARE PROPERLY PROTECTED. THE ISSUE GOES TO HOW SAFE INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE... BYSTANDERS... PEOPLE IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME.
* GOOGLE "PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE ACCIDENTS" AND THE LIKE...
(*SHRUG*)
The core mission of the Secret Service is to prevent an attack on the chief executive's person and that includes defending the White House. Yet this crude intrusion would be implausible in an airport thriller. The guy waltzed in the front door.
Two weeks ago Omar Gonzales eluded the Secret Service's perimeter cameras and a plainclothes surveillance detail, hopped the fence, and crossed 70 yards to the mansion before a rapid response team was deployed. He then entered without tripping an alarm or encountering a deadbolt on either the outer storm door or the interior ornamental historic door. Mr. Gonzales overpowered a female guard in the foyer...
* WILL THIS GUARD BE FIRED? DEMOTED OR TRANSFERRED AT THE LEAST? (AND YES, I'D BE ASKING THE SAME QUESTION HAD THE GUARD BEEN MALE. GUARDS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE OVERPOWERED!)
...and roamed through the ground floor before being tackled, eventually, to the East Room floor.
Had Mr. Gonzales hung a left and ran up a flight of stairs, he might have penetrated President Obama's private living quarters. He was armed with a serrated Spyderco knife though he could have easily been carrying a small arsenal or wearing a suicide vest. The only other lucky break the service (and the nation) caught was that Mr. Obama and his daughters had departed via helicopter only moments before.
Mr. Gonzales was not on the Secret Service radar though two months ago Virginia police found a sawed-off shotgun, 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and a map with the White House circled in his car.
* SERIOUSLY...???
Nor after he was found lurking with a hatchet along the south fence.
* SERIOUSLY...?!?!
These details leaked over the weekend. The Secret Service originally blamed the inadequacy of the 49-year-old fence and added in a statement that Mr. Gonzalez "was physically apprehended after entering the White House North Portico doors." This is technically true in the sense that the British Redcoats who captured the White House in 1814, ransacked the silver and set the building on fire also came in through doors.
* FOLKS... CAN YOU IMAGE WHAT WE DON'T KNOW...?!?!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 3)
Secret Service director Julia Pierson had no explanation for such dissembling at a House hearing on Tuesday, much less for the cascade of failures before and after the crisis. "It's clear that our security plan was not properly executed," she said, in what would be the understatement of the decade if there weren't so many other instances in which this Administration has tried to justify its incompetence.
* OBVIOUSLY PIERSON IS A TOTAL INCOMPETENT...
Ms. Pierson lamented "the difficulty in trying to operate a critical federal agency in times of fiscal constraint," but the truth is that the Secret Service budget of $1.7 billion for 2014 has doubled in real terms since 1998.
(*NOD*)
* YEP! I KNEW THAT!
In the four decades since the Ford Presidency, the U.S. has invested billions of dollars (the totals are classified) in fortifying the White House and Old Executive Office Building, and Pennsylvania Avenue has been closed to traffic in front of the White House for half as long. Yet the Secret Service was no more prepared for this most unsophisticated of infiltrators than for the 16 other people who have come over the fence in the last five years.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The larger danger is that these embarrassments advertise security vulnerabilities in Vegas-strip neon. The more they happen, the more likely more dangerous individuals or organizations will try again, and a team with tactical training or advanced weapons could do great damage against an evidently hapless Naked Gun 2½ patrol.
(*GRITTING MY TEETH*)
On Monday the Administration expressed "full confidence" in Ms. Pierson, and perhaps even a threat to Mr. Obama's personal safety is not enough to disabuse his excessive faith in government.
* OBAMA IS A FUCKING IDIOT...
Yet she got the job in March 2013 after her predecessor was canned when agents engaged the less-than-secret services of Cartagena hookers while doing advance work for a Presidential visit to Colombia.
* CHECK OUT HER BIOGRAPHY, FOLKS. OBVIOUSLY A POLITICAL HIRE... AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EXECUTIVE.
The latest episode marks a new nadir in the decline of government, and the start of rebuilding professionalism is accountability. That should include firing Ms. Pierson and anyone else who lies to the public.
* LYING TO THE PUBLIC IS THE RULE - NOT THE EXCEPTION - IN THE AGE OF OBAMA.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-01-13-24-13
The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States told relatives that he notified health care workers the first time he went to the hospital that he was visiting the U.S. from Liberia, the man's sister said Wednesday.
Liberia is one of the three hardest-hit countries in the epidemic, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Mai Wureh told The Associated Press that her brother, Thomas Eric Duncan, went to a Dallas emergency room on Friday and was sent home with antibiotics. He returned two days later after his condition worsened and was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Mark Lester confirmed Wednesday that a nurse asked Duncan on his first visit whether he had been in an area affected by the Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands in West Africa, but that "information was not fully communicated throughout the whole team."
* ONE MORE TIME...
Liberia is one of the three hardest-hit countries in the epidemic, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea.
* AND YET...
...a nurse asked Duncan on his first visit whether he had been in an area affected by the Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands in West Africa, but that "information was not fully communicated throughout the whole team."
* GOD HELP US...
* PERHAPS RETIRED SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL ARE RUNNING THE HOSPITAL?
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/01/us-visas-held-by-13500-people-in-three-ebola-countries/
Roughly 13,500 people from the Ebola-stricken countries of Sierra Leon, Guinea and Liberia have visas to visit the United States, according to federal data.
Under current policies, only people with obvious Ebola symptoms are excluded by border officials. But a person can be infected with the disease, and not show any symptoms, for up to 21 days.
Namibia, Kenya and Zambia have already barred or restricted travelers from the three Ebola countries. In contrast, “where immigration and travel security matters are concerned, this [U.S.] administration has a history of trying to sweep potential security and health threats under the rug,” said Jennifer Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. "They’re on the side of acting like there not a threat, there’s nothing to see here,” she said.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-no-obamacare-subsidies-through-federal-insurance-marketplace/
The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) suffered a fresh legal setback on Wednesday, when a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that the federal government could not provide insurance subsidies to customers in states that declined to set up their own marketplaces under the federal health care law.
The decision increases the possibility that the Supreme Court will eventually decide to weigh in on the matter.
Several previous federal court decisions have come down on opposite sides of the dispute. In July, an appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, upheld the subsidies provided through federally-administered marketplaces, but an appeals court in D.C. struck them down on the same day.
For a variety of reasons, from political opposition among Republicans to difficulties building the insurance exchanges in some states, only 14 states elected to establish their own exchange to allow consumers to comparison-shop health care plans. The other 36 states punted the job to the federal government, which offered to step in if a state was unable or unwilling to erect its own marketplace.
* NOTICE THAT SLAP AT REPUBLICANS...
(*SNORT*)
* OBAMACARE WAS A STRICTLY PARTISAN BILL! DEMS CONTROLLED THE WHITE HOUSE, AND AT THE TIME BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS. THEY WROTE THE BILL. THEY "DEEMED" THE BILL PASSED. REPUBLICANS HAD ABSOLUTELY NO INPUT INTO THE BILL.
* AND... AS WE ALL KNOW... WHEN PUSH CAME TO SHOVE CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS VOTED TO DECLARE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS NULL AND VOID AS APPLIED TO FEDERALLY MANDATED BEHAVIOR AND FORCED PURCHASES.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
If the decision reached Wednesday by the judge in Oklahoma is upheld by the Supreme Court, the decision could strip health insurance tax credits from more than 4 million people in the 36 states that allowed the federal government to administer their insurance exchanges.
* FOLKS... DON'T GET YOUR HOPES UP...
* FIRST OF ALL... WE CAN'T TRUST THE SUPREME COURT. (THAT'S A GIVEN. IT'S BEEN DEMONSTRATED.)
* SECOND OF ALL... IF HISTORY IS ANY GUESS... RINO REPUBLICANS (BOEHNER, MCCONNELL, THE GOP LEADERSHIP) WILL BAND TOGETHER WITH OBAMA, REID, AND PELOSI IF NECESSARY IN ORDER TO "FIX" THE LAW AND GET THOSE SUBSIDIES FLOWING.
The Oklahoma judge, Ronald A. White, said the provision of insurance subsidies through the federal marketplace rested on an "invalid implementation" of the law, noting that the law only approves subsidies for insurance purchased through "an exchange established by the state."
* WORDS MATTER! (OR AT LEAST THEY SHOULD...)
The administration contended it was "standing in the shoes" of those 36 states in establishing their exchanges and doling out subsidies, according to the New York Times, but White brushed aside that argument, saying it doesn't "comport with normal English usage."
* WHITE'S RIGHT. (HEY... AGAIN... DEMS WROTE THE LAW... DEMS PASSED THE LAW... OBAMA SIGNED THE LAW.)
Still, he disputed suggestions that his ruling, if upheld, would annihilate the totality of the health care law, saying Congress is free to update the law to permit subsidies in states with federally-run insurance exchanges.
* SEE, FOLKS... WHAT DID I JUST WARN YOU ABOUT..?
"The court is upholding the act as written," he wrote in his decision. "Congress is free to amend the Affordable Care Act to provide for tax credits in both state and federal exchanges, if that is the legislative will."
* AS TO WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM...
(*SNORT*)
Oklahoma's Repulican attorney general, E. Scott Pruitt, hailed White's decision as a "victory for the rule of law."
* A TEMPORARY VICTORY. AND ONE OF FEW EVEN TEMPORARY VICTORIES AT THAT.
"The administration and its bureaucrats in the IRS handed out billions in illegal tax credits and subsidies and vastly expanded the reach of the health care law because they didn't like the way Congress wrote the Affordable Care Act," Pruitt said in a statement. "That's not how our system of government works."
* YES. IT IS. FOLLOW YOUR OWN LOGIC. THEY (IRS OFFICIALS... ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS...) BROKE THE LAW AND... THEIR LIVES WILL GO ON. NO ARRESTS. NO TRIALS. NO CONVICTIONS. NO JAIL TIME. NO FINES. THEY WON'T EVEN LOSE THEIR JOBS.
* TIP O' THE HAT TO MY FRIEND MICHELLE FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION... BUT...
(*SIGH*)
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/head-unit-investigating-state-election-law-violations-cuomo-office-loop-article-1.1958907
The head of a supposedly independent unit created to investigate (New York) state election law violations has kept Gov. Cuomo’s office in the loop about her work, the Daily News has learned.
Chief Enforcement Counsel Risa Sugarman...
* PIECE OF SHIT!
...included Cuomo press aide Richard Azzopardi in a Sept. 22 email she sent to four Board of Elections officials.
* PIECE... OF... SHIT...!!!
The email related to a pending inquiry over whether Republican state attorney general candidate John Cahill’s campaign should have publicly released an internal poll in its entirety after making a portion of it public.
“Please forward any material in reference to this matter to me immediately," Sugarman wrote in the email, which in its header declared the importance of the message as “high.”
“In addition, any further inquiries should be directed to my attention."
The inclusion of Azzopardi raised questions whether Cuomo’s team might be involving itself in the work of the new unit, as it controversially did with his Moreland anti-corruption panel.
* GEEZUS...
“Did the governor not make assurances to the Legislature that he would appoint an independent person for the enforcement counsel?” said one insider. “Is this the Moreland Commission all over again?”
Cuomo appointed Sugarman — who served him during his days as governor and attorney general — this spring.
She denied there’s been any interference from the governor’s office. She said she does not yet have her own press person and included Azzopardi in the email because he had received a reporter’s inquiry about the Cahill matter.
* GIVE ME A FRIGGIN' BREAK! SUGARMAN IS A LONG-TIME DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE!
[And] sources say since Sugarman started her job last month, she has frequently mentioned Azzopardi while telling people at the Board of Elections she would not use the agency’s two internal spokesmen.
(*SMIRK*)
The board’s commissioners raised the matter with her during a closed-door session last Friday, according to two sources who were in the room. Asked about Azzopardi, Sugarman said she was using him as her press person, the sources said.
* HERE'S WHAT I WANNA KNOW: IS THERE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT IN ADDITON TO HER ETHICAL BREACHES, SUGARMAN IS GUILTY OF LEGAL BREACHES - OF COMMITTING CRIMES VIA HER ACTIONS?
At least two of the four commissioners questioned her about the appropriateness of using a member of Cuomo’s staff, particularly given the controversy over the Cuomo administration’s alleged interference with the Moreland Commission — a matter now under federal investigation.
The two sources quoted Sugarman as saying, “I’ll use who I want to use.”
* YEP. SOUNDS LIKE SUGARMAN. (YEAH... I'VE HAD PERSONAL RUN-INS WITH THE WOMAN.)
Told of the comments, Sugarman initially said she wouldn’t discuss private conversations. Several hours later she sent a statement that didn’t confirm or deny Azzopardi’s role.
“There are those who would like to distract my work by making allegations and thereby interfere with my investigations,” she wrote. “I am conducting independent investigations in my office. No one has sought to influence my office in any manner. I will continue to do my job and follow through wherever they lead.”
* WHAT A DESPICABLE WOMAN... A LYING PIECE OF GARBAGE...
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