More irony...

The Comical Conservative

Victor Davis Hanson; "Violating Americans’ privacy while failing to identify the terrorists among us".

VDH's Private Papers  Pick Your Scandal
"The problem with the NSA monitoring is not just Obama’s hypocrisy of once decrying elements of the Patriot Act only to embrace them, or indeed expand upon them. By now, everyone knows that what Obama demagogued in 2008 was what he adopted in 2009. Nor is the problem that the U.S. does not have a need to monitor the communications of potential terrorists who plan attacks through the Internet, e-mail, and cell phones. Rather, the dilemma for the Obama administration is that the apparently vastly expanded NSA surveillance came at a time when, in high-profile terrorist cases — the Tsarnaev bombing, Major Hasan’s murder spree — U.S. officials did not use the intelligence in their possession to preempt terrorist acts. Fairly or not, there is the impression that a James Rosen of Fox News or the tea-party affiliates were more likely to earn unlawful federal attention than was a possible terrorist."  (Emphasis added with relish. TD)

Silent Warriors vs. the Warrior Princess

Blackfive 

"This is the absurd culmination of an extravaganza of ridiculousness that the NSW community may never recover from.  When I started blogging in 2004 as a SEAL, it was not to tell you about the things SEALs were doing and how cool we are.  It was to show you how we thought about or approached certain issues from politics to policy.  And when it became my turn to go down range, I shut it down, because you didn’t need to know, and you still don’t. 
"Here’s another thing you don’t need to know: Why Chris Beck wants to live the rest of his life as a woman."....
 

Drug Dealers In Your Home

Maya Grim "My parents used to send me out to play, and I had to be home by the time the street lights came on. Not only would I never consider letting my son do that, I have to worry about when to get him his first computer. I've noticed that a lot of us don't know our neighbors like my parents did.  If we don't know who's next door, we almost certainly have no clue as to who is lurking behind any web address. The main internet threats we all think about are scammers and sexual predators.  While these are still threats, there is a new one that is every bit as dangerous and devastating."
Hat tip to Michelle Lancaster at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Then there is this internet hazard:
Mom tricks sex predator with Target ad 

We can all learn from this mom. Good for her.

McCain and the Wacko Birds

McCain Against the ‘Wacko Birds’   "The debate was over, but John McCain wasn’t done. After he threw down with a trio of younger Republican colleagues he has dubbed the “wacko birds,” McCain proceeded to walk around the Senate floor, ranting about the interchange to individual senators."

"McCain was incensed that Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee have been blocking Democratic majority leader Harry Reid from appointing Senate members to a conference committee for the budget resolution."

WaPo: McCain calls Paul, Cruz, Amash ‘wacko birds’

"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is continuing to criticize his fellow Republicans for their filibuster of incoming CIA Director John O. Brennan over drone policy."

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"McCain himself was unrepentant, telling Michael Medved Friday that Paul’s concerns about a drone attack on U.S. civilians not engaged in violent activity were “ludicrous” and “inappropriate,” as well as a waste of time."

 allvoices

7-year old Pop-Tart gun offender loses first appeal

Legal Insurrection  "You may remember the story of the 7-year old disciplined for biting his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun at school, Maryland school offers counseling for students troubled by “pastry gun” incident."
(No, this story is not from "The Onion") 

 

"The evidence against the young lad was overwhelming and unimpeachable:"

 

Expunge this.

An appeal to have an eight year-old boy’s record expunged for a suspension he received for biting a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun has been denied.
The attorney for Josh Welch, the boy who made national headlines after nibbling his pastry into a gun, said Monday that a top school official has denied an appeal to have the boy’s record expunged.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the family’s attorney, Robin Ficker, met with school officials last month, but no resolution was reached.

Sheriff Andy Taylor on snooping and the law

iowntheworld  "Opie, I can't listen to that!" 

 

No such death panel

The recent case of Sarah Murnaghan raises new questions about whether the new healthcare system comes with death panels.

http://netrightdaily.com/2013/06/no-such-death-panel/

Remember How Leftist Media And Democrats Mocked Sarah Palin Over ‘Death Panels’? 

Sarah Palin was right about death panels  "But...but...people over 75 are old. And they would vote for well, Sarah Palin (R) instead of Obama. Or...eek! former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) who should never have received a heart transplant claim the death panel supporting sensitive haters. Read their appalling comments here. More here.
"Watch the Supreme Court case on Obamacare closely; hope death panels are not in your 70+ year old future."  Ethel C. Fenig

Navy SEAL raid member with traumatic brain injury might be called to testify against Manning that documents he leaked to WikiLeaks were found in bin Laden's Pakistani hideout

UK Daily Mail   "
The raid member, however, says the memory issues 'do not impact my life in any discernible way' and have not effected his memory of the raid that killed bin Laden."
His brain issues sound pretty much like my own.  "...prosecutors plan to argue that Afghanistan War Logs and the Department of State's diplomatic cables that were leaked by Manning were found in bin Laden's compound in an attempt to prove that the leaks were a direct threat to U.S. security. The raid member's testimony presumably would be used to establish a chain of custody of the documents found in the compound."

citizensagainstproobamamediabias

 

Military blog speaks about "Free Bradley Manning" "There isn't really a good reason to rally for freeing Bradley and if you blindly support someone who is complicit in the deaths of innocent civilians, well in my book you are morally challenged to be polite. But hey we are talking about Code Pink and ANSWER, so morally challenged is in their charters. .... I talked to a  bunch of news people, shocking I know, and I'll post any I find. It was a beautiful day to spend with some great patriots as we checked a bunch of truly deluded wankers."

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NY Times: It's Not Getting Warmer, We Don't Know Why, But We SWEAR It's Going to Get Warmer Soon

Yid With Lid   "The NY Times has finally woken up and smelled the coffee (but as it turns out it's iced coffee). The Times science writers have finally figured out that global temperatures plateaued about 15 years ago agreeing with the Met office in the UK which is one of the key proponents of the Climate Change hoax who said global warming stopped over 15 years ago, and the  BBC which echoed that claim.

"The last time the temperature rose, Al Gore's Chakra was working for Bill Clinton...that was way before his Oscar-winning movie and his investment company which "coincidentally" is poised to make billions of dollars off of the global warming scare."
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"The data reflects that over the past 500 years there has been a pattern of short-lived warming and cooling episodes none of which could have been caused by changes in atmospheric CO2. The record show a regular pattern of alternate warming and cooling with a 25-30 year period for the past 500 years.

Hat tip to Jeffrey Dunetz at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

 

Benghazi Matters

The American  "In the aftermath of the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi and three other Americans, the Obama administration did the classic dance of political operatives confronted with an inconvenient truth: deny, deny, deny, and then say, “Oh that doesn’t matter because it was a long time ago.” President Obama has called efforts to get to the bottom of what happened a “sideshow.” But, alas, Benghazi is not a sideshow and it does matter. The administration’s actions in this and other scandals facing the Obama team go to the very foundation of any presidency: can the American people trust their president and his administration?"
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"I’ve served four secretaries of State in a variety of positions in the State Department and in various ambassadorships. I’ve seen how the building works. Benghazi was not just a mid-level bureaucratic failure. It was a failure of leadership."   Via Lucianne

Should this administration be trusted with our most private information?

Hope n' Change nails it.   ..."Of course, all of your information will be handled in an absolutely confidential, non-political way, in much the same way that the IRS handles your personal data.

"Still, just to be safe, it might be a good idea not to use inflammatory words like "patriot," "liberty," "constitution," or "freedom" when you're using the phone or Internet. You never know what mischief a couple of low-level "rogue agents" at the NSA might get into."

But Words Will Never Hurt Me   "There are so many potential keywords (and words which can be misconstrued), that a lot of people are deciding that it's best just to avoid speaking aloud or writing about controversial topics like politics, liberty, freedom, religion, or the competency of Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama.

"Instead, Americans are wearing fixed (albeit nervous) grins when they talk about how great our deficit is, how terrific abortion is, and how outdated the Constitution is."....