Friday, June 14, 2013
Big Politically Correct Brother; The bozo leviathan sees everything . . . and nothing.
Mark Steyn "....you might wish Boston had been a little tougher on Tamerlan and spent less time chasing the phantoms of “Free America Citizens.” But, in fact, it would have been extremely difficult to track the Tsarnaevs at, say, the mosque they attended. Your Granny’s phone calls, your teenager’s Flickr stream, and your Telecharge tickets for two on the aisle at Mamma Mia! for your wife’s birthday, and the MasterCard bill for dinner with your mistress three days later are all fair game, but since October 2011 mosques have been off-limits to the security state. If the FBI guy who got the tip-off from Moscow about young Tamerlan had been sufficiently intrigued to want to visit the Boston mosque where he is said to have made pro-terrorism statements during worship, the agent would have been unable to do so without seeking approval from something called the Sensitive Operations Review Committee high up in Eric Holder’s Department of Justice.
....
"We’re told that universal surveillance has prevented all kinds of atrocities we can never hear about — an answer straight out of Orwell. Yet oddly, in the ones we do hear about, the perps are hiding in plain sight (Major Hasan with “Soldier of Allah” on his business card), the intelligence services do nothing (the Pantybomber known to the CIA but still permitted to board the plane), and the digital superstate is useless (the Tsarnaev photo rang no bells with the facial-recognition software, but was identified by friends who saw it on TV)."
"We’re told that universal surveillance has prevented all kinds of atrocities we can never hear about — an answer straight out of Orwell. Yet oddly, in the ones we do hear about, the perps are hiding in plain sight (Major Hasan with “Soldier of Allah” on his business card), the intelligence services do nothing (the Pantybomber known to the CIA but still permitted to board the plane), and the digital superstate is useless (the Tsarnaev photo rang no bells with the facial-recognition software, but was identified by friends who saw it on TV)."
Pushing the envelope, NSA-style
Charles Krauthammer Dr. Krauthammer has no problem with the NSA program on its face:
"Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the Postal Service may record “mail cover,” i.e., what’s written on the outside of an envelope — the addresses of sender and receiver.
The National Security Agency’s recording of U.S. phone data does basically that with the telephone. It records who is calling whom — the outside of the envelope, as it were."
The programs are necessary and can be effective, but trust in our government is everything.
"The object is not to abolish these vital programs. It’s to fix them. Not exactly easy to do amid the current state of national agitation — provoked largely because such intrusive programs require a measure of trust in government, and this administration has forfeited that trust amid an unfolding series of scandals and a basic problem with truth-telling."
And here is where the trust factor is the foundation:
"Legally this is fairly straightforward. But between intent and execution lies a shadow — the human factor, the possibility of abuse. And because of the scope and power of the NSA, any abuse would have major consequences for civil liberties.
But it is hard to trust you, Mr. Obama.
"Now it turns out that Obama’s government was simultaneously running a massive, secret anti-terror intelligence operation. But if the tide of war is receding, why this vast, ever-expanding NSA dragnet whose only justification is an outside threat — that you assure us is receding?
"Which is it, Mr. President? Tell it straight. We are a nation of grown-ups. We can make choices. Even one it took you four years to admit is not “false.” "
Private Prophetry
...."And so, the government continues to mount the largest and most expensive intelligence gathering operation in history, excluding only those people most likely to be the ones they're looking for.
"Which raises two important questions: why then is the government spying on the rest of us and why, in the bloody aftermath of Ft. Hood, does the government of Barack Hussein Obama still place a higher value on political correctness than saving American lives?"
"Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the Postal Service may record “mail cover,” i.e., what’s written on the outside of an envelope — the addresses of sender and receiver.
The National Security Agency’s recording of U.S. phone data does basically that with the telephone. It records who is calling whom — the outside of the envelope, as it were."
The programs are necessary and can be effective, but trust in our government is everything.
"The object is not to abolish these vital programs. It’s to fix them. Not exactly easy to do amid the current state of national agitation — provoked largely because such intrusive programs require a measure of trust in government, and this administration has forfeited that trust amid an unfolding series of scandals and a basic problem with truth-telling."
And here is where the trust factor is the foundation:
"Legally this is fairly straightforward. But between intent and execution lies a shadow — the human factor, the possibility of abuse. And because of the scope and power of the NSA, any abuse would have major consequences for civil liberties.
But it is hard to trust you, Mr. Obama.
"Now it turns out that Obama’s government was simultaneously running a massive, secret anti-terror intelligence operation. But if the tide of war is receding, why this vast, ever-expanding NSA dragnet whose only justification is an outside threat — that you assure us is receding?
"Which is it, Mr. President? Tell it straight. We are a nation of grown-ups. We can make choices. Even one it took you four years to admit is not “false.” "
Private Prophetry
...."And so, the government continues to mount the largest and most expensive intelligence gathering operation in history, excluding only those people most likely to be the ones they're looking for.
"Which raises two important questions: why then is the government spying on the rest of us and why, in the bloody aftermath of Ft. Hood, does the government of Barack Hussein Obama still place a higher value on political correctness than saving American lives?"
CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer
Via Lucianne with this comment: "Just Posted: Of course CBS will be as diligent on this as Fox was on the James Rosen case."
WaPo "The CBS News reporter was then asked whether her issue related to the experience of Fox News reporter James Rosen, who’d been the target of Justice Department snooping. She responded: “Well, I don’t know details of his — I only know what I’ve read but I think there could be some relationship between these types of things and what’s happened to me.”
"That wasn’t a loud-mouthed affirmation, but rather a suggestion that her computer troubles could be the work of an overreaching U.S. government. Attkisson later pulled back a touch, clarifying that she wasn’t ready to identify a “specific entity.” "
WaPo "The CBS News reporter was then asked whether her issue related to the experience of Fox News reporter James Rosen, who’d been the target of Justice Department snooping. She responded: “Well, I don’t know details of his — I only know what I’ve read but I think there could be some relationship between these types of things and what’s happened to me.”
"That wasn’t a loud-mouthed affirmation, but rather a suggestion that her computer troubles could be the work of an overreaching U.S. government. Attkisson later pulled back a touch, clarifying that she wasn’t ready to identify a “specific entity.” "
Obama Tells Keystone Foes He Will Unveil Climate Measures
Every day we wake up wondering what this man will do to us next.
Bloomberg " “Keystone XL and the moral urgency of climate change will determine this president’s place in history more than anything else,” said John Sellers, executive director of The Other 98%, a non-profit that opposes the pipeline, in a conference call with reporters this week. “President Obama can be the FDR of this moment and say no to dirty fossil fuels, or he can lock us and our children into a future of climate chaos.”
Bloomberg " “Keystone XL and the moral urgency of climate change will determine this president’s place in history more than anything else,” said John Sellers, executive director of The Other 98%, a non-profit that opposes the pipeline, in a conference call with reporters this week. “President Obama can be the FDR of this moment and say no to dirty fossil fuels, or he can lock us and our children into a future of climate chaos.”
"Global emissions of carbon
dioxide rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to record levels, according to a report this
week by the International Energy Agency.
" “A broader climate agenda is far
more important in the grand scheme of things,” said Josh Freed, director of the
Clean Energy Program at Third Way, a Democratic-leaning policy group in Washington,
D.C. “Keystone is a battle but climate is the war.” "
No mention in the article of the counter arguments to the environmentalists.
It will be soon be known as 'The un-affordable Health Care Act'
Silvio Canto, Jr. "All of this confusion confirms just how reckless President Obama and the Democrats were in pasing this law in 2010.
"First, no one ever held a hearing about the plan. No one asked a simple question: what's this thing going to cost? We had politicians rather than actuaries projecting costs!
"The law is 3 years old and we have one word for this law: UNAFFORDABLE!"
"First, no one ever held a hearing about the plan. No one asked a simple question: what's this thing going to cost? We had politicians rather than actuaries projecting costs!
"The law is 3 years old and we have one word for this law: UNAFFORDABLE!"
Anything the US does now is too little, too late; Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda
USA Today "Al Nusra and groups like it have seen some of the most significant victories against Syrian government forces in the course of the 2-year-old uprising in which Assad's forces have killed about 80,000 people. Rebels not affiliated with al-Qaeda have pressed Washington for months to send weaponry that will allow them to match the heavy weapons of the Syrian army. They've urged the West to mount an air campaign against Assad's mechanized forces."
....
""This illustrates the need for American leadership in the Syrian conflict, particularly with regard to helping non-Qaeda-aligned rebels contain the growth of (al Nusra) and similar groups," he said."
Russia's new Middle Eastern role " Russia may enjoy the paralysis of the West in the region and seek to embarrass the United States and its allies, but that is a secondary matter. It also may want to demonstrate to the world that it doesn't abandon allies the way that the United States abandoned former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Again, that is a minor matter. Russia's interest in the outcome of the Syrian civil war stems from two critical interests."....
Sort of how the West abandoned Czechoslovakia in 1938 and millions died as a result of our cowardice. Just to point out that it is unwise not to learn from history.
....
""This illustrates the need for American leadership in the Syrian conflict, particularly with regard to helping non-Qaeda-aligned rebels contain the growth of (al Nusra) and similar groups," he said."
Russia's new Middle Eastern role " Russia may enjoy the paralysis of the West in the region and seek to embarrass the United States and its allies, but that is a secondary matter. It also may want to demonstrate to the world that it doesn't abandon allies the way that the United States abandoned former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Again, that is a minor matter. Russia's interest in the outcome of the Syrian civil war stems from two critical interests."....
Sort of how the West abandoned Czechoslovakia in 1938 and millions died as a result of our cowardice. Just to point out that it is unwise not to learn from history.
2013 Air Force Academy graduation minus the Obama administration
This was relayed to the Tunnel Wall by former high school classmates. It is the account as written to them, unedited. TD
Good friends of ours from here in Elizabethtown, KY just got back home from a visit to the Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs where they attended the commencement exercises of the graduating class of 2013. In fact John's grandson was one of the graduates and John, being a retired US Army officer was able to swear in his grandson as a brand spanking new US Air Force 2Lt.
What
an honor that must have been for John and his family, but that's not the real
story nor is it the historic significance of the 2013 commencement
celebration. You see 2013 is the first Air Force graduation on record
that has occurred under a Sequester created by a non functioning Congress and
an unyielding Obama Administration. Due to operating under this Sequester
the ceremonies proceeded as follows:
President
Obama regretfully declined the kind invitation of the Commandant of the Air
Force Academy to be speak to the graduates and their families on the occasion
of their graduation saying he was committed to addressing the graduates at West
Point. Instead it was established that Vice President Biden was free and
he would come to Colorado Springs. And, as to the request for the usual
fly-over by the US Air Force Thunderbirds that was declined again due to the
Sequester.
After
consultation with his chain of command the Commandant of the Air Force Academy
notified the White House that due to the Sequester cancelling the traditional
fly-over of the Thunderbirds that he was confident that the nation didn't need
the added $1 million + expense to fly Air Force 2, of any configuration or
model, and the added expense of the Secret Service and their entourage required
when the Vice President traveled. So just cancel the initial request for
a speaker from the White House for the commencement.
So
the commencement went off as planned sans representation from the Obama
Administration. It looked like this:
The
featured speaker was an Under Secretary of the Air Force, who is a decorated
Viet Nam veteran. The Secretary flew back and forth from Andrews AFB to
Peterson AFB In Colorado Springs on routine training flight conducted by the
Air Force thus costing the American tax payers nothing.
John
tells me that there were nearly as many Air Force General Officers in
attendance as there were family members. He thinks a dozen or more 4 Star
General, three or four times as many 2 and 3 Stars an untold number of 1 Star
Generals. And, of course countless Colonels and below.
Most
of these officers were themselves alumni of the Air Force Academy and wanted
nothing less than to present a perfect program for the graduating class.
Since the Congress and the Obama Administration could not see fit to allow for
a fly-over by the Thunderbirds, a number of the senior generals took matters
into their own hands. And so, when the speeches, the hats were all thrown
into the air, and all the family hugs were all made and it became time for the
fly-over a roar of engines was detected from the West of the air strip and
parade grounds there at the facility and everyone was treated to a fly-over by
the Confederate Air Force. Looking up they saw all kinds of vintage
aircraft from B-17s B-24s, B-25s, P-38s, P-51s and others all represented by
manufactures such Corsairs, Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing who still provide
parts availability for these aircraft, and flown by our hero's from prior
conflicts that still see fit to stay active for services such as this. It
was a wonderful experience for all who were there.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Where is Saul Alinsky When Conservatives Need Him?
Conservative Report Online "One of Alinsky's theories, widely published in a famous quote from then White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, is that a competent community organizer creates crises out of which come an obvious solution: the very “solution” you had intended all along.
"Yet, fortuitously, if we look at it from the radical perspective, we have been afforded multiple crises, even if not of our own making:"....
"The answer to these serial crises is simple:
"Return powers to the States and limit the size of the Federal government." Emphasis in the original.
Hat tip to Chip Jones at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook
Hat tip to Chip Jones at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook
Texas: Principal Threatens To Sabotage Naval Appointment Of Valedictorian Who Changed Graduation Speech To Defend The Constitution…
As Texas tries to lure more and more California citizens here, expect to see more of this. I do not know if this principal is a Californian, but doesn't all this originate there?
Texas: Principal Threatens To Sabotage Naval Appointment Of Valedictorian Who Changed Graduation Speech To Defend The Constitution…
"Remington Reimer mentioned God and the U.S. Constitution in his speech and now his principal is threatening to ruin his Navy appointment."
Read the Todd Starnes article here.
Reimer, a senior at Joshua High School, made national headlines on June 6 when officials cut off his microphone in mid-speech after he strayed from pre-approved remarks and began talking about his relationship with Jesus Christ.
Reimer, who has received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, thanked God for “sending His only son to die for me and the rest of the world,” the Joshua Star reported.
Texas: Principal Threatens To Sabotage Naval Appointment Of Valedictorian Who Changed Graduation Speech To Defend The Constitution…
"Remington Reimer mentioned God and the U.S. Constitution in his speech and now his principal is threatening to ruin his Navy appointment."
Read the Todd Starnes article here.
Reimer, a senior at Joshua High School, made national headlines on June 6 when officials cut off his microphone in mid-speech after he strayed from pre-approved remarks and began talking about his relationship with Jesus Christ.
Reimer, who has received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, thanked God for “sending His only son to die for me and the rest of the world,” the Joshua Star reported.
Obamacare, the Young Invincibles and Congress
Will a PR campaign convince healthy twentysomethings to buy insurance if they don’t want to?
"Lost in a spirited online debate last week about what young, healthy people — so-called invincibles — will pay for insurance on the Obamacare exchanges is a mundane truth: Some people don’t want to buy health insurance and will refuse to buy it no matter what the government says.
"That’s especially true of the invincibles, whose participation in the Affordable Care Act is crucial. If they don’t sign up for insurance on the exchanges, the federal health-care law could implode almost as soon as it goes live on New Year’s Day, 2014."
"Lost in a spirited online debate last week about what young, healthy people — so-called invincibles — will pay for insurance on the Obamacare exchanges is a mundane truth: Some people don’t want to buy health insurance and will refuse to buy it no matter what the government says.
"That’s especially true of the invincibles, whose participation in the Affordable Care Act is crucial. If they don’t sign up for insurance on the exchanges, the federal health-care law could implode almost as soon as it goes live on New Year’s Day, 2014."
"I wonder how many of these people voted for Obamacare?"
Heritage "....a stunning demonstration of political condescension on the health care front"
The Dhimmi culture in America: Obama's Snooping Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers
Lets define terms.
Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued"
The life of Dhimmis , another example.
GERMANY: Muslim NO-GO areas where even the police are afraid to
In case you missed it, Rep. Mike Pompeo said the failure of Muslim leaders to repudiate acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam makes them “potentially complicit” in these attacks.
Here, I've highlighted this next excerpt:
"One of the Muslim bombers made extremist outbursts during worship, yet because the mosque wasn't monitored, red flags didn't go off inside the FBI about his increasing radicalization before the attacks."
Boston police exercise featuring right-wing terrorists with backpack bombs disrupted by real Muslim terrorists with backpack bombs Maybe you noticed that when terrorism is depicted in movies, they are usually white, right-wing extremists.
" "Frighteningly similar," except that Islamic jihadists are real, while right-wing terrorists sporting a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat and a furious expression are figments of the Leftist imagination."
Barack Obama is fond of using the word "enemy" to define his domestic opponents. And the word "revenge" is never applied to those who wish to kill us by the millions.
Obama Spies on Everyone Except Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers
"Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas-tied groups have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations with the diabolist in the White House. They viciously fought to have jihad and Islam scrubbed from terror training materials and manuals. "....
Obama Includes Evangelical Christians on List of Religious Extremists
The slide below "came from a U.S. Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief titled “Extremism and Extremist Organizations.” The Obama Administration included Evangelical Christians with Al-Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan."
Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued"
The life of Dhimmis , another example.
GERMANY: Muslim NO-GO areas where even the police are afraid to
In case you missed it, Rep. Mike Pompeo said the failure of Muslim leaders to repudiate acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam makes them “potentially complicit” in these attacks.
"In the hours after the Boston bombings on April 15, which occurred at approximately 2:49 p.m., a number of Muslim institutions issued statements whose themes included prayers for the victims, calls for Muslims to assist humanitarian efforts, and condemnations of terrorism.IBD "The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won´t snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are. That´s right, the government´s sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized. Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee." ....
"One of the Muslim bombers made extremist outbursts during worship, yet because the mosque wasn't monitored, red flags didn't go off inside the FBI about his increasing radicalization before the attacks."
Boston police exercise featuring right-wing terrorists with backpack bombs disrupted by real Muslim terrorists with backpack bombs Maybe you noticed that when terrorism is depicted in movies, they are usually white, right-wing extremists.
" "Frighteningly similar," except that Islamic jihadists are real, while right-wing terrorists sporting a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat and a furious expression are figments of the Leftist imagination."
Barack Obama is fond of using the word "enemy" to define his domestic opponents. And the word "revenge" is never applied to those who wish to kill us by the millions.
Obama Spies on Everyone Except Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers
"Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas-tied groups have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations with the diabolist in the White House. They viciously fought to have jihad and Islam scrubbed from terror training materials and manuals. "....
Obama Includes Evangelical Christians on List of Religious Extremists
The slide below "came from a U.S. Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief titled “Extremism and Extremist Organizations.” The Obama Administration included Evangelical Christians with Al-Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan."
"The Obama Administration “strongly objects” to a proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have protected the religious rights of soldiers – including evangelical Christian service members who are facing growing hostility towards their religion."
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