Bill Clinton Has Some Advice for Charles Rangel (video and sound)

The Powers That Be  "On the Don Imus program, Bill Clinton had some advice for Charles Rangel on how to proceed with his career, post censure.
"Both here are portrayed by phony actors, but I think both are in real life, too: "
It's right after you sit through a half-minute commercial.

Pelosi Pulls One Last Political Stunt

redstate.com  "With their days numbered in control of the U.S. House, Democrats are planning a political stunt Thursday in hopes of embarrassing Republicans on a vote to raise taxes."....
"Without an opportunity to offer amendments, Republicans are expected to vote against the measure. By doing so they’ll give [Pelosi] one final opportunity to demagogue the issue. However, it will likely be a short-lived victory. The measure has little chance of passing in the Senate."
Ding, dong, wait...she's moving!

Swedish Court Confirms Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder

NY Times  "A report in the British newspaper, The Independent, on Thursday suggested that Scotland Yard’s Serious Organized Crime Agency knew the whereabouts of Mr. Assange. He is said to be in the south of England and Scotland Yard even has a telephone number for him, but they have declined to arrest him until they clarify technical difficulties with paperwork filed by the Swedish prosecutors, the report said."

By Two-to-One Margin, Voters Believe U.S. Spends More on Military than Social Security

Rasmussen Reports "In reality, the expenditure for both items is similar and the precise answer depends upon accounting issues and time frames."

Let's throw this Rasmussen stat in as well:  51% Say Leaking of U.S. Secrets Is Treason

Cartoon by Rich Terrell at terrellaftermath

Techno-physiology can stop terrorists NOW! But, TSA keeps searching for THINGS

Stephen Whitten  "These tactics are unnecessary and of questionable value because the desired screening results – identifying dangerous people – is secondary to finding things. If officials wanted to address that primary objective, they would discover that the appropriate technology is readily available and reasonably inexpensive."....
"Here is an absolute fact. A person that is knowingly attempting to board an aircraft with a bomb is scared. Detecting that fear is easily done. It’s time to stop unnecessarily assaulting law abiding passengers and focus on the terrorists. Some people at DHS know that should be an option."
Stephen Whitten is Founder and CTO of Communicated Enforcement, LLC, manufacturers of FutureSentry.com, the automated security guard.


Why TSA has no plans for finding terrorists Part 2 of previous article.  "Knocking down the World Trade Center was impressive, but the grief, horror and anger most of us felt did not represent personal fear since few Americans live or work in New York, high-rise buildings or other terrorist targets. For this reason I predicted at that time that that the terrorists would pursue a series of strategic, less dramatic attacks in the US to convince all of us that we were all in harms way. Last week’s Seattle bomb threat was among the first to work that way."

Throw the WikiBook at them

Charles Krauthammer "Assange has done more damage to the United States than all six of those Germans combined. Putting U.S. secrets on the Internet, a medium of universal dissemination new in human history, requires a reconceptualization of sabotage and espionage - and the laws to punish and prevent them. Where is the Justice Department?"....
"Want to prevent this from happening again? Let the world see a man who can't sleep in the same bed on consecutive nights, who fears the long arm of American justice. I'm not advocating that we bring out of retirement the KGB proxy who, on a London street, killed a Bulgarian dissident with a poisoned umbrella tip. But it would be nice if people like Assange were made to worry every time they go out in the rain."

Krauthammer on the government's wishy-washy response to the Wikileaks scandal  "If we get hit by a terror attack because a country had stopped cooperating with us fearing exposure, we shouldn't blame Julian Assange. We should blame those who did nothing to prevent him from damaging our security. "
Obama was molded and mentored by people who hate America fully as much as does Julian Assange.


http://www.worldmag.com/editorialcartoons/



Wikileaks: Lebanon defense minister 'offered invasion advice for Israel'

Haaretz "Lebanon's Defense Minister offered advice on how Israel could defeat Hezbollah if a new war erupted on Israel's northern border, a classified U.S. diplomatic cable shows.

Google photo

"In a future replay of its 2006 invasion of southern Lebanon, Israel should take care not to antagonize local Christian communities, Elias Murr told the United States embassy in Beirut, according to a document released by the WikiLeaks group. "

 Release of this information alone will guarantee that Wikileaks will have blood on it's hands.

 Dead man walking  :"Lebanon's Defense Minister offered advice on how Israel could defeat Hezbollah if a new war erupted on Israel's northern border, a classified U.S. diplomatic cable shows."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez



The Senate’s Secret Santa Agenda

Heritage  "According to Gallup, only 31 percent of Americans believe the best approach for dealing with the economy is raising taxes. The vast majority of Americans (62 percent) believe that the best way to fix the economy is either through deficit reduction (39 percent) or lower taxes (23 percent). But neither of those items is on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D–NV) agenda.
"So what legislative gifts is Reid planning on giving the American people this Christmas? No one knows for sure, but Reid’s wish list is long."
Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh.

That Israeli Fire

First Foreign Planes Arrive in Israel to Help Put Out Fires That Killed 41  "Firefighters are still trying to contain the blaze, which police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said was the worst in Israel’s history. Most of the 41 confirmed dead were killed yesterday in a bus carrying prison guards on their way to help evacuate a prison endangered by the flames, Rosenfeld said."

Haaretz photo

Two arson suspects apprehended in Carmel forest     "The suspects were allegedly attempting to rekindle a fire in the forest with the use of Molotov cocktails." Jerusalem Post

Carmel inferno proves Israel can't afford war with Iran  "Just like Israel's army in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, the emergency services were wholly unprepared to handle a shock on this scale."
Article and photo from Haaretz

Scotland Yard Will Arrest Assange Friday

Verum Serum  "Scotland Yard detectives were last night preparing to detain the 39-year-old over claims of rape and sexual assault in Sweden."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/ChipBok
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Wikileaks, The Facts: Part I  "Israeli officials told American government officials:

•Israel is not in a position to underestimate Iran and be surprised like the United States was on 9/11.

•Israel and the United States need to do more to create regime change in Iran.

•IDF operations against Hamas in the West Bank are preventing the terrorist group from taking over the Fatah-controlled territory.

•Israel tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead with Abu Mazen and Hosni Mubarak."

Wikileaks, The Responsibility: Part II  "Crazy? Maybe. Self-serving? Definitely. Manning says he is talking to Lamo because he "needs to try and figure out how I could get my side of the story out... before everything was twisted around to make me look like Nidal Hassan." He doesn't have to be Nidal Hassan; being Bradley Manning is damning enough.
There is so much more to this story. Who thinks the government will go after all of it - including the hardware, software and, most important, human lapses in the Department of Defense - and who thinks it will just try to hang Manning from the nearest tree?"
Parts 1 and 2 from The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs