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April 30, 2013
Special operator claims US could have intervened in Benghazi and Obama is Not telling the truth!
Source comes Forward and Says the Obama Administration is Not Telling the Truth on Benghazi; Rapid Response Force Could have been Sent in Time to Help Americans under Attack
From “Special Report” on Fox News, here is a U.S. “Special Operator” who “watched the events in Benghazi unfold” and is directly contradicting the Administration of Barack Obama.
Unlike the Obama White House, this source is saying that the United States COULD HAVE sent help to Americans under attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya – but DID NOT.
The identity of the operator was concealed because he fears reprisals from the Obama Administration. The operator said the U.S. had a rapid response force in Europe training in Croatia and they could have been on the scene in Benghazi within 4-6 hours – BEFORE the second attack on the CIA Annex about a mile away from the Consulate compound that killed two Americans. This is the first source who watched the events unfold in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, to come forward and tell what happened. He said other witnesses fear coming forward because of threats against them if they tell what they know.
More installments of this interview are to come in the days ahead. The Benghazi Scandal is not going away for President Obama and Hillary Clinton, as much as they are trying to make it do so. Let’s hope there are full-fledged Congressional hearings and investigations to come on this matter so that the families of the Americans who died there can have some answers about why no help was sent for their loved ones.
Wild Thing's comment..................
Good for this brave man.
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Obama administration officials threatened whistle-blowers on Benghazi, lawyer says
Obama administration officials threatened whistle-blowers on Benghazi, lawyer says
At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned.
Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official and Republican counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, is now representing one of the State Department employees. She told Fox News her client and some of the others, who consider themselves whistle-blowers, have been threatened by unnamed Obama administration officials.
“I'm not talking generally, I'm talking specifically about Benghazi – that people have been threatened,” Toensing said in an interview Monday. “And not just the State Department. People have been threatened at the CIA.”
Toensing declined to name her client. She also refused to say whether the individual was on the ground in Benghazi on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, when terrorist attacks on two U.S. installations in the Libyan city killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
However, Toensing disclosed that her client has pertinent information on all three time periods investigators consider relevant to the attacks: the months that led up to the attack, when pleas by the ambassador and his staff for enhanced security in Benghazi were mostly rejected by senior officers at the State Department; the eight-hour time frame in which the attacks unfolded, and the eight-day period that followed the attacks, when Obama administration officials incorrectly described them as the result of a spontaneous protest over a video.
“It's frightening, and they're doing some very despicable threats to people,” she said. “Not ‘we're going to kill you,’ or not ‘we're going to prosecute you tomorrow,’ but they're taking career people and making them well aware that their careers will be over [if they cooperate with congressional investigators].”
Federal law provides explicit protections for federal government employees who are identified as “whistle-blowers.” The laws aim to ensure these individuals will not face repercussions from their superiors, or from other quarters, in retaliation for their provision of information about corruption or other forms of wrongdoing to Congress, or to an agency’s inspector-general.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican from California who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday to complain that the department has not provided a process by which attorneys like Toensing can receive the security clearances necessary for them to review classified documents and other key evidence.
“It is unavoidable that Department employees identifying themselves as witnesses in the Committee’s investigation will apply for a security clearance to allow their personal attorneys to handle sensitive or classified material,” Issa wrote. “The Department’s unwillingness to make the process for clearing an attorney more transparent appears to be an effort to interfere with the rights of employees to furnish information to Congress.”
The Obama administration maintains that it has been more than forthcoming on Benghazi and that it is time for the State Department to move on. At a recent hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Kerry noted that administration officials have testified at eight hearings on Benghazi, provided 20 briefings on the subject and turned over to Congress some 25,000 documents related to the killings.
“So if you have additional questions or you think there's some document that somehow you need, I'll work with you to try to get it and see if we can provide that to you,” Kerry told committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., on April 17. But Kerry added: “I do not want to spend the next year coming up here talking about Benghazi.”
Asked about Issa’s complaints about attorneys not receiving security clearances, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell on Monday indicated that – far from threatening anyone – the administration hasn’t been presented with any such cases. “I'm not aware of private counsel seeking security clearances or -- or anything to that regard,” Ventrell told reporters. “I'm not aware of whistle-blowers one way or another.”
Ventrell cited the work of the FBI – whose probe of the attacks continues almost eight months later and without any known instances of perpetrators being brought to justice – and the Accountability Review Board. The board was an internal State Department review panel led by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen. An unclassified version of the board’s final report that was released to the public contained no conclusions that suggested administration officials had willfully endangered their colleagues in Benghazi or had misled the public or Congress.
“And that should be enough,” Ventrell said at Monday’s press briefing. “Congress has its own prerogatives, but we've had a very thorough, independent investigation, which we completed and [which was] transparent and shared. And there are many folks who are, in a political manner, trying to sort of use this for their own political means, or ends.”
Wild Thing's comment...............
All of the actions by Obama and his administration and by Hillary only prove how guilty they are.
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Sickening! Boston Jihadist Assigned Elite Taxpayer-Funded Lawyer
Boston Jihadist Assigned Elite Taxpayer-Funded Lawyer
Elite defense lawyer Judy Clark, who last defended Jared Loughner, will be assigned to defend Djohar Tsarnaev in preparation for a death penalty trial. Clark will be paid by taxpayers.
Wild Thing's comment.............
IMO this is so very wrong, we should not have to pay for terrorists lawyers.
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April 29, 2013
11 Year Old Boy Suspended For Bringing Tiny Swiss Army Knife On School Camping Trip- lunacy from teachers!
11 Year Old Boy Suspended For Bringing Tiny Swiss Army Knife On School Camping Trip
A 10-year-old California boy was suspended and threatened with expulsion after he brought a Swiss Army Knife on a week-long school school camping trip.
Tony Bandermann told Fox News that his son Braden was on a science camping trip with his class at Garden Gate Elementary School in Cupertino, Calif.
According to a school incident report, the boy showed the small knife to other students who then reported him to teachers. The incident report stated that law enforcement was also notified. However, no charges were filed.
Bandermann, who was out-of-town on a business trip, said he received a telephone call from the school’s principal informing him that his son had violated the school’s weapons policy. The punishment, she told him, must be immediate and severe.
“She threatened to expel him,” he said. “She kept telling me, ‘you can’t bring a weapon to school.’ A Swiss Army Knife is a tool not a weapon.”
Since he was unable to pick up his son, the principal put the boy in 24-hour isolation at the camp – held in a teacher’s lounge where he was forced to eat and sleep in solitude.
“It was horrible in every way,” the father said. “The punishment was ridiculous.”
Neither the school nor the Cupertino Union School District returned telephone calls seeking comment.
Bandermann said it’s unreal to think that a boy on a hiking and camping trip could get in trouble for having a Swiss Army Knife.
“I felt as though I want to pull him out of the public education system and homeschool him,” he said. “I felt as though the public education system is becoming the bottom of the barrel. I felt sorry for today’s kids.”
Braden is back in school now – but his father is still fuming. He accused the school district of overreacting.
“They’re not teaching critical thinking,” he said. “That’s what she’s teaching these kids – to react on your emotions instead of gathering information.”
Wild Thing's comment.........
Getting crazier by the day and these teachers are mental midgets.
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GOP Urges Obama to Enforce Syria 'Red Line,' Oppose Deploying Troops
GOP Urges Obama to Enforce Syria 'Red Line,' Oppose Deploying Troops
Congressional Republicans said Sunday that President Obama must stick with his vow to take action should Syria cross a “red line” by using chemical weapons on citizens, amid such mounting evidence, but cautioned against sending in troops.
"The president has laid down the line, and it can't be a dotted line,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told ABC’s “This Week.” “It can't be anything other than a red line.”
U.S. officials said last week that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad probably used chemical weapons twice in March, amid a two-year civil war in which more than 70,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced.
“For America to sit on the sidelines and do nothing is a huge mistake," Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Arizona Sen. John McCain has been among congressional Republicans most critical of the president’s stance on Syria.
He argued on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the red line strategy has given Assad a “green light” to do almost everything up to that point -- including the use of missiles, helicopter attacks and other civilian strikes that have resulted in “atrocities on a scale that we have not seen in a long, long time.”
However, he joined a bipartisan call this weekend against sending U.S. troops into Syria.
"The worst thing we could do is put boots on the ground," McCain said.
He and fellow Hill lawmakers fear the chemical weapons could be more dangerous in the hands of U.S. enemies or those who might overthrow Assad. And he joined in calls for the United States to be part of an international force to safeguard the weapons.
“The day after Assad [leaves] is the day that these chemical weapons could be at risk,” Chicago Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky told ABC. “We could be in bigger, even bigger trouble.”
Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin urged Sunday afternoon on Fox against sending troops, saying that’s exactly what the Assad regime wants.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, also said the U.S. could safeguard the weapons without a ground force. But he said the weapons must be protected from getting into the hands of enemies.
"The next bomb that goes off in America may not have nails and glass," he told CBS, referring to the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing in which three people were killed and more than 260 others were injured.
Obama has also said Assad transferring the stockpile of weapons to terrorists would also cross the line.
The assessment that Syria used chemical weapons last month followed similar conclusions from Britain, France, Israel and Qatar -- key allies eager for a more aggressive response to the Syrian conflict.
The United States is already providing humanitarian aid and non-lethal support to Syrian opposition forces.
Obama has insisted that any use of such weapons would change his thinking about his country’s role in Syria but said he didn't have enough information to order aggressive action.
"For the Syrian government to utilize chemical weapons on its people crosses a line that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches these issues," Obama said Friday.
Both sides of the civil war accuse each other of using the chemical weapons.
The deadliest such alleged attack was in the Khan al-Assal village in the Aleppo province in March. The Syrian government called for the United Nations to investigate alleged chemical weapons use by rebels in the attack that killed 31 people.
Syria, however, has not allowed a team of experts into the country because it wants the investigation limited to the single Khan al-Assal incident, while U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged "immediate and unfettered access" for an expanded investigation.
Wild Thing's comment................
I would rather hear what Bibi has to say about all of this then any of our American politicians.
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Abortion (baby killing) Clinic Tells Mother To Flush Baby Born Alive Down The Toilet
Abortion Clinic Tells Mother To Flush Baby Born Alive Down The Toilet
The pro-life group Live Action today released an undercover video of an abortion counselor at a clinic describing, in gruesome details, what is done with a baby that survives an abortion attempt. This is the first in a series of videos Live Action will release videos , found at www.liveaction.org/inhuman, that will show a number of late-term abortion clinics engaging in illegal and inhuman practices, as well as explaining in explicit detail what happens to the victims of late-term abortion.
“Dr. Kermit Gosnell is not an aberration, ” said Lila Rose, Founder and President of Live Action. “The gruesome and brutal practices exposed in Gosnell’s ‘House of Horrors’ are business as usual for the abortion industry in America. Nationwide, it’s just another day at the office.”
In the video, the abortion counselor is caught on tape describing, in gruesomely precise terms, how late-term abortions happen. She details what is done with a baby after the abortion and advises to “flush” the baby down the toilet if he or she is delivered at home before the final stage of the two- or three-day abortion procedure.
“If it comes out, then it comes out. Flush it. … if anything, you know, put it in a bag or something or somewhere and bring it to us.”
When Live Action’s undercover investigator asks what happens to the baby after the abortion – or what the clinic would do if, after the abortion, the baby is moving – the counselor says:
“If it did come out in one piece, it’s very small. So they would still have to put it in a container – like, a jar – with solution and send it to the lab.”
Wild Thing's comment...............
Murderers and Obama voted for this 3 times when he was Senator.
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April 28, 2013
World War II Veteran who provided flag on Iwo Jima dead at 90
World War II Veteran who provided flag on Iwo Jima dead at 90
LOS ANGELES – A World War II veteran who provided the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima has died. Alan Wood was 90.
Wood's son, Steven, says his father died April 18 of natural causes at his Sierra Madre home.
Wood was in charge of communications on a landing ship on Iwo Jima's shores when a Marine asked him for the biggest flag that he could find. Wood handed him a flag he had found in Pearl Harbor.
Five Marines and a Navy Corpsman later raised the flag on Mount Suribachi as Allied forces struggled to capture the Japanese-held island. The stirring moment was captured in an iconic image by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
Steven Wood says his father was always humbled by his small role in the historic moment.
After five days of fighting to capture the Japanese-held island, U.S. forces had managed to scale Mount Suribachi to hoist an American flag.
Wood happened to have a 37-square-foot flag he had found months before in a Pearl Harbor Navy depot. .
Five Marines and a Navy Corpsman later raised that flag in a stirring moment captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
Steven Wood says his father was always humbled by his small role in the historic moment.
In a 1945 letter to a Marine general who asked for details about the flag, Wood wrote: "The fact that there were men among us who were able to face a situation like Iwo where human life is so cheap, is something to make humble those of us who were so very fortunate not to be called upon to endure such hell."
In its story on Wood's death, the Los Angeles Times reported that over the years others have claimed that they provided the flag, but retired Marine Col. Dave Severance, who commanded the company that took Mount Suribachi, said in an interview last week that it was Wood.
"I have a file of more than 60 people who claim to have had something to do with the flags," he said from his home in La Jolla, Calif.
Wood went on to work as technical artist and spokesman at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge.
His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1985. Besides his son, Wood was survived by three grandchildren.
Wild Thing's comment...............
R.I.P. Alan Wood and thank you.
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Obama at WH Correspondents Dinner
Obama Jokes About Creating The Blame Bush Library
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Obama: I'm Not the Muslim Socialist I Used to Be
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Obama Mocks Rush Limbaugh at Correspondents' Dinner
After entering to hip-hop music, Barack Obama wasted no time in mocking conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday.
"How do you like my new entrance music?" Obama said, smirking. "Rush Limbaugh warned you about this. Second term, baby."
Obama entered to, "All I Do is Win," a DJ Khaled song that features Ludacris, who once rapped about wanting to paint the White House black.
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Barack Obama made a birther joke.
Obama was talking about how his recent appearance at the dedication of George W. Bush's presidential library inspired him to start his own legacy. He then made a quip about the potential location of his library.
"Some have suggested we put it in my birthplace, but I'd rather keep it in the United States," Obama joked.
He then said, smirking, "Did anybody not see that joke coming?"
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Wild Thing's comment...................
Of course the evening was spent bashing conservatives. He is such an ass.
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Love for ILLEGALS and NOT for American Citizens-Colorado Repeals Law That Required Police to Report Illegals to Federal Authorities
Colorado Repeals Law That Required Police to Report Illegals to Federal Authorities
On Friday, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) signed a bill that repeals the 2006 law, SB06-90 . The bill required police to alert federal authorities about suspected illegals living in the US. The bi-partisan supporters of the repeal said the law made immigrants afraid of law enforcement.
Those who wanted the law repealed argued it made immigrants afraid of police. They also say the law is now duplicative because a federal program checks fingerprints during arrests to check immigration status.Proponents of such laws say that the federal government has failed to control illegal immigration, forcing states to take matters into their hands. The U.S. government has tried to fight such laws, and argues that immigration is a federal issue.Colorado’s law, known as SB-90, required police to report people they arrested and they suspected to be undocumented to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“As immigrants become more and more involved in our civic life, they are having a greater impact on elections and legislation and they are voting for politicians that support issues that are important to them,” said Miriam Peña, executive director with the Colorado Progressive Coalition. “This bipartisan vote on the Trust Act tells me the growing influence of Latino and Asian immigrants is changing the political dynamic in Colorado.”
On Wednesday, the Colorado state Senate approved a bill allowing illegals to obtain drivers licenses. If passed, Colorado will be the 5th state to give illegals driving privileges.
Wild Thing's comment..............
Don't you just love how our country, well so many anyway, want to leave off the word ILLEGAL when they are pushing things to favor those that enter illegally. Screw them!
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CAIR Sues State Of Michigan For Not Providing Muslim Prisoners Proper Halal Meals - Bread and water there settled
CAIR Sues State Of Michigan For Not Providing Muslim Prisoners Proper Halal meals
A federal lawsuit was filed today against the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging several Muslim inmates aren’t getting enough “nutritional” food during the month-long fast of Ramadan and are being forced to eat foods that violate their religious beliefs.
According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, the state’s “Ramadan Bagged Meal” contains about 1,100-1,400 calories, which is roughly less than half the amount of calories that the other inmates get on any given day. Under state prison policy, all inmate meals total 2,600 to 2,900 calories a day.
The lawsuit, filed by the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), is challenging a policy that it claims requires Muslim inmates to sacrifice an adequate diet when they participate in the Ramadan fast. The suit also challenges a policy that prevents Muslims from maintaining a religiously-mandated —or halal — diet. Halal is a term used to designate food seen as permissible according to Islamic teachings. Under the halal food diet, pork and pork-based food products are forbidden, an addition to all meat that is not slaughtered and prepared in accordance with Islamic law.
The lawsuit claims that the MDOC has refused to provide Muslim inmates with a halal diet, “despite repeated requests.” As a result, Muslim inmates have been forced to “violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs by eating foods that violate the restrictions of the halal food diet,” according to the lawsuit.
CAIR-MI is seeking a court order enjoining the department from denying Muslim inmates an adequate diet during the upcoming month of Ramadan, which is scheduled to start July 9.
Wild Thing's comment..................
CAIR is what is the problem, they have yet to show they are against terrorists.
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April 27, 2013
Government Ammunition Stockpiling Causing Price Hikes, Shortages
Government Ammunition Stockpiling Causing Price Hikes, Shortages
Ammunition factory worker: "We could work seven days a week and not meet the demands right now. It's just crazy out there"
Accusations and denials of government ammunition stockpiling are driving up prices and fear for gun owners.Friday, two members of the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation introduced legislation to put a stop to it. What hasn't stopped is the price spike for ammo.
Squeezing off a few rounds at the range is getting expensive. A box of bullets that went for $9 four years ago can now run close to $30.
Production lines at ammunition manufacturers for the past decade have been running near full capacity.
"We could work seven days a week and not meet the demands right now. It's just crazy out there. Supply and demand, we just can't keep up with demand," said Willy Tague, a factory worker. Military contracts continue to gobble up bullets, despite the troop draw down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Additional purchases by the Department of Homeland Security have triggered accusations that the government is trying to limit what the public can buy as part of a back-door-gun control policy. That fear has gun owners grabbing as much as they can.
"They're stockpiling. Why?" They're afraid of what's going to happen, well they're cautious about it I think," said Barry Brock, a factory worker.
Wild Thing's comment....................
We have the worst government with Obama and his ilk.
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Bibi Netanyahu: Syrian Rebels “The Worst Islamist Radicals In The World”
Netanyahu: Syrian Rebels “The Worst Islamist Radicals In The World”…
Israel fears end to 40-year peace on Syrian front
ALONEI HABASHAN, Golan Heights (AP)
Against a vista of green fields and snowcapped mountains, all is silent but for a gusting wind. Then comes a burst of gunfire from the Syrian civil war raging next door, where jihadist rebels are battling Bashar Assad’s troops in a village.
Watching it all unfold from a few kilometers (miles) away are Israeli soldiers atop tanks behind a newly fortified fence, while a large-scale Israeli drill sends off its own explosions in the background.
This is the new reality on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, for 40 years the quietest of Israel’s front lines, a place of hiking trails, bird-watching, skiing and winery tour. The military predicts all that will soon change as it prepares for the worst — a power vacuum in Syria in which rogue groups could get their hands of the country’s large stockpile of chemical weapons. [...]
Israel, which borders southwestern Syria, has thus far been careful to stay on the sidelines of a civil war that has already claimed the lives of more than 70,000.
Assad is a bitter enemy, an ally of Iran and a major backer of Lebanese Hezbollah guerilla attacks against Israel. But like his father whom he succeeded as president, he has faithfully observed U.S.-brokered accords that ended the 1973 war. Israel worries that whoever comes out on top in the civil war will be a much more dangerous adversary.
Chief among Israeli concerns is that Assad’s advanced weaponry could reach the hands of either his ally, the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, or Islamic extremist groups among the rebels trying to oust him.
“Syria is not a regular place … it is the biggest warehouse for weapons on earth,” Hirsch warned.
In an interview with BBC TV last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the rebel groups among “the worst Islamist radicals in the world.”
“So obviously we are concerned that weapons that are ground-breaking, that can change the balance of power in the Middle East, would fall into the hands of these terrorists,” he said.
Wild Thing's comment...............
Love Bibi, I wish he was our president instead of the creep Obama.
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s Message on Abortion is “Extremism” – Video
Krauthammer: Obama’s Message on Abortion is “Extremism”
Wild Thing's comment..................
Obama just one question for you. Why did you allow your children to live???? The children that have been slaughtered with your approval wanted a chance to live as well.
Posted by Wild Thing at 10:40 AM
Congress Members Question DHS On Massive Ammo Buys; Allocating 1000 More Rounds Per Agent Than A U.S. Soldier
Congress Members Question DHS On Massive Ammo Buys; Allocating 1000 More Rounds Per Agent Than A U.S. Soldier
Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is using roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army, as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their “massive” bullet buys.
“It is entirely … inexplicable why the Department of Homeland Security needs so much ammunition,” Chaffetz, R-Utah, said at a hearing.
The hearing itself was unusual, as questions about the department’s ammunition purchases until recently had bubbled largely under the radar — on blogs and in the occasional news article. But as the Department of Homeland Security found itself publicly defending the purchases, lawmakers gradually showed more interest in the issue.
Democratic Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., at the opening of the hearing, ridiculed the concerns as “conspiracy theories” which have “no place” in the committee room.
But Republicans said the purchases raise “serious” questions about waste and accountability.
Chaffetz, who chairs one of the House oversight subcommittees holding the hearing Thursday, revealed that the department currently has more than 260 million rounds in stock. He said the department bought more than 103 million rounds in 2012 and used 116 million that same year — among roughly 70,000 agents.
Comparing that with the small-arms purchases procured by the U.S. Army, he said the DHS is churning through between 1,300 and 1,600 rounds per officer, while the U.S. Army goes through roughly 350 rounds per soldier.
He noted that is “roughly 1,000 rounds more per person.”
“Their officers use what seems to be an exorbitant amount of ammunition,” he said.
Nick Nayak, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, did not challenge Chaffetz's numbers.
However, Nayak sought to counter what he described as several misconceptions about the bullet buys.
Despite reports that the department was trying to buy up to 1.6 billion rounds over five years, he said that is not true. He later clarified that the number is closer to 750 million.
He said the department, on average, buys roughly 100 million rounds per year.
He also said claims that the department is stockpiling ammo are "simply not true." Further, he countered claims that the purchases are helping create broader ammunition shortages in the U.S.
The department has long said it needs the bullets for agents in training and on duty, and buys in bulk to save money.
While Democrats likened concerns about the purchases to conspiracy theories, Republicans raised concern about the sheer cost of the ammunition.
"This is not about conspiracy theories, this is about good government," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chairs the full Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he suspects rounds are being stockpiled, and then either "disposed of," passed to non-federal agencies, or shot "indiscriminately."
If that is the case, he said, "then shame on you."
Wild Thing's comment..................
Obama and his people could care less if they are not transparent, and they walk and talk like dictators. The thing is they get away with all they do.
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April 26, 2013
Calif. bill would let non-citizens serve on juries - OMG
Calif. bill would let non-citizens serve on juries
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) --
The California Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the first in the nation to allow non-citizens who are in the country legally to serve on jury duty.
Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said his bill, AB1401, would help California widen the pool of prospective jurors and help integrate immigrants into the community.
It does not change other criteria for being eligible to serve on a jury, such as being at least 18, living in the county that is making the summons, and being proficient in English.
The bill passed 45-25 largely on a party-line vote in the Democratic-controlled Assembly and will move on to the Senate. One Democrat - Assemblyman Adam Gray, of Merced - voted no, while some other Democrats did not vote.
Democratic lawmakers who voted for the bill said there is no correlation between being a citizen and a juror, and they noted that there is no citizenship requirement to be an attorney or a judge. Republican lawmakers who opposed Wieckowski's bill called it misguided and premature.
Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, said there is no shortage of jurors.
"Jury selection is not the problem. The problem is trial court funding," Harkey said before the vote. "I hope we can focus on that. Let's not break something; it's not broken now. Let's not whittle away at what is reserved for U.S. citizens. There's a reason for it."
Wieckowski's office said the bill is the first of its kind in the nation and suggested that courts regularly struggle to find enough prospective jurors because jury duty is often seen as an inconvenience, if not a burden. His office did not cite any statistics but pointed to a 2003 legislative report that said numerous articles have noted high rates of non-participation.
Wild Thing's comment...................
Just how UNAmerican will our country become before someone does something about it.
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Obama Admin To Mexico: Illegal Immigrants Can Have Food Stamps _ You idot Obama Voters it is YOUR Taxes and mine paying for this!
Obama Admin To Mexico: Illegal Immigrants Can Have Food Stamps
With food stamp spending in the United States skyrocketing since the beginning of the recession, the Department of Agriculture is paying to promote food stamp usage to illegal immigrants for the sake of their American children, according to documents obtained by a government watchdog.
“The promotion of the food stamp program, now known as “SNAP” (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their immigration status in order to receive financial assistance,” Judicial Watch announced today. “Emphasized in bold and underlined, the statement reads, ‘You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.’”
The USDA said the program is designed to help American children. “[The USDA Food and Nutrition Service] understands that mixed status households may be particularly vulnerable,” FNS’ Yibo Wood wrote to Mexican embassy officials in a January 2012 email. “Many of these households contain a non-citizen parent and a citizen child.”
Wild Thing's comment.................
Stop all this insanity!
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Obama Siding with terrorist gets a Judge to Stop the FBI from being able to question the Boston Marathon Terrorist still alive in hospital
FBI was 16 hours into questioning the young bomber and getting many answers.......then Holder sent in a judge on Monday....to stop all questioning along with a lawyer..all done with No FBI knowledge!!!! This was done by Eric Holder.
Regular viewers of Fox News are used to seeing popular host Megyn Kelly on their televisions every afternoon, but on Thursday morning Kelly made a special appearance during the morning to break some surprising information: according to her sources, the FBI was “shocked” to see a magistrate “waltz into” the hospital room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and read him his Miranda rights.
Kelly also reports that the FBI said that they were in the process of obtaining valuable information from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect who is hospitalized in Boston, when a judge and lawyers entered the room and Dzhokhar was read his Miranda rights.
FBI officials say they were only 16 hours into a 48-hour window granted to them by a public safety exception.
According to Kelly, the officials believe our national security may have been comprised by the decision to send the judge in so soon.
So why were they shocked? According to Kelly, the FBI was under the understanding that they would get much more time with Tsarnaev under the “public safety exemption” before he was read his rights. Adding to the shock: the sources told Kelly agents were getting crucial information after only 16 hours of questioning and were making valuable progress. [...]
“The FBI had no idea they were sending over the judge, the prosecutor, the federal public defender; and the FBI said they were only 16 hours into what they understood would be a 48 hour period of questioning … . They said they were in the process of getting valuable information … and as soon as that magistrate judge went in there and gave him his rights with his lawyer present, he stopped talking. They said they would never have stopped interrogating him prior to the 48 hours unless they were forced to.”
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Notice how every single day Obama and his people do things to take control over our country, even with a terrorist attack.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:48 AM
Obama's Judge Marianne Bowler Who Mirandized Boston Bomber Has Ties To Muslim Countries
Judge Marianne Bowler Who Mirandized Boston Bomber Has Ties To Muslim Countries
Judge Bowler has some interesting international connections. She is a member of the Member of the International Judicial Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Apparently in that capacity, she visited and spoke on legal issues at a number of Muslim countries, becoming the first female judge to speak in Kuwait, appearing also in Egypt and in the United Arab Emirates.
Oddly enough, aside from a visit to the US embassy in Belgrade, those are the only international appearances that she lists and they all take place in Muslim countries.
While Islamic infiltration of our political system is well known, the infiltration of our legal system is less well known, but operates within similar parameters with foreign contacts being made. There is no way of knowing how much Bowler has been influenced by her connections with the legal and political systems of the Muslim world, but it is telling that her international judicial relations appear to begin and end with the Muslim world.
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Typical of Muslim Obama, everything in his acceptable world are muslims.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
President George W. Bush Speech at Dedication of His Presidential Library
President George W. Bush Speech at Dedication of His Presidential Library: “The Guiding Principle” of My Administration was that “the USA Must Strive to Expand the Reach of Freedom”
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Great speech by a real President not the fake POS we have now with Obama.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM | Comments (1)
April 25, 2013
Rudy Giuliani: Obama Has Put the US Back to ‘Worse Than’ a Pre-9-11 Mentality
Rudy Giuliani: Obama Has Put the US Back to ‘Worse Than’ a Pre-9-11 Mentality
Giuliani believes Barack Obama has not only put the US back to a pre-9-11 mentality but that he’s actually put us back worse than a pre-9-11 mentality.
“I think worse than a pre-9-11 mentality. Because at least before 9-11 you could say we weren’t on notice about all these things. Now we’re on notice. You don’t have the excuses that existed before 9-11 about not really knowing the full implication of this. We now know the full implication of this. They’ve come to our soil. They’ve killed Americans. They’re killing Americans for a purpose, not just for the heck of it.”
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I agree, there should be no excuses for anyone.
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Lawmakers, and their aides may get Obamacare exemption- Founding Fathers Turning Over in their Graves! ENOUGH is Enough!
Lawmakers, and their aides may get Obamacare exemption
Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.
The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Obama administration and other top lawmakers — are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said.
A source close to the talks says: “Everyone has to hold hands on this and jump, or nothing is going to get done.”
Yet if Capitol Hill leaders move forward with the plan, they risk being dubbed hypocrites by their political rivals and the American public. By removing themselves from a key Obamacare component, lawmakers and aides would be held to a different standard than the people who put them in office.
Democrats, in particular, would take a public hammering as the traditional boosters of Obamacare. Republicans would undoubtedly attempt to shred them over any attempt to escape coverage by it, unless Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) give Democrats cover by backing it.
There is concern in some quarters that the provision requiring lawmakers and staffers to join the exchanges, if it isn’t revised, could lead to a “brain drain” on Capitol Hill, as several sources close to the talks put it.
The problem stems from whether members and aides set to enter the exchanges would have their health insurance premiums subsidized by their employer — in this case, the federal government. If not, aides and lawmakers in both parties fear that staffers — especially low-paid junior aides — could be hit with thousands of dollars in new health care costs, prompting them to seek jobs elsewhere. Older, more senior staffers could also retire or jump to the private sector rather than face a big financial penalty.
Plus, lawmakers — especially those with long careers in public service and smaller bank accounts — are also concerned about the hit to their own wallets.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is worried about the provision. The No. 2 House Democrat has personally raised the issue with Boehner and other party leaders, sources said.
“Mr. Hoyer is looking at this policy, like all other policies in the Affordable Care Act, to ensure they’re being implemented in a way that’s workable for everyone, including members and staff,” said Katie Grant, Hoyer’s communications director.
Several proposals have been submitted to the Office of Personnel Management, which will administer the benefits. One proposal exempts lawmakers and aides; the other exempts aides alone.
When asked about the high-level bipartisan talks, Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman, said: “The speaker’s objective is to spare the entire country from the ravages of the president’s health care law. He is approached daily by American citizens, including members of Congress and staff, who want to be freed from its mandates. If the speaker has the opportunity to save anyone from Obamacare, he will.”
Reid’s office declined to comment about the bipartisan talks.
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Our Founding Fathers would be firing shots long ago during Obama's 1st term in office.
When the hell are American's going to fight back and I mean fight back!!!!! We have let these idiots run over us, use us, steal from us and totally go against our Constitution.
Vote them out Really??????? With all the voter fraud from the left how is that possible we saw what happening in this last election and the voter fraud in 2008 as well.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Mark Levin Gives Awesome Epic Rant
Mark Levin Gives Epic Rant
Please CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO!! I promise you won't be disappointed. ~Chrissie
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Thank God for Mark Levin, love this rant he did.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:48 AM | Comments (2)
Criminal! Obama Regime Awards PR Firm $14 Million Taxpayer-Funded Contract To Run Pro-Obamacare Ads
Obama Regime Awards PR Firm $14 Million Taxpayer-Funded Contract To Run Pro-Obamacare Ads
Obamacare Gets a Makeover, and You’re Paying for It
In the three years since President Obama signed Obamacare into law, Democrats have failed to convince the majority of Americans that the law was actually a good idea. As its full implementation date draws near, the Obama administration is desperate to change that. So they’ve awarded a $14 million contract to a major public-relations firm to run a massive ad campaign touting its purported benefits.
Who’s paying for this? Taxpayers, of course. It was bad enough that President Obama raised taxes to fund a new entitlement. Now the American people are footing the bill for our government to convince us that Obamacare — and its 20,000 pages of regulations — wasn’t a mistake.
It’s going to be a tough sell. Even some Democrats are realizing that navigating this bureaucratic monstrosity will be nearly impossible for patients and small businesses, with or without a PR blitz.
Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana who voted for Obamacare, told Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently that the implementation of the law is a looming disaster. “I just see a huge train wreck coming down,” he told her.
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This POS OBama and his people need serious jail time, prison for the things they do.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
FOX News Special Report : Russia contacted the US twice about Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev
FOX News Special Report confirmed today that Russia contacted the US twice about the alleged radicalization of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
At least two US agencies including the FBI and CIA knew about Islamist radical Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Yet, he was apparently overlooked before and after the bombing.
Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX), the Homeland Security Committee Chairman, also told FOX that because of the sophistication of the bombs used in the Boston attacks “it is likely the brothers had training by an individual or individuals who are still at large.”
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This is Obama's FBI and IMO it is completely different then the FBI under Bush. Remember how Obama had radical Islam taken out of documents and then shortly after that HIS FBI re-wrote some of their manuals to go along with Obama's agenda. That was back in 2010.
FLASHBACK: Obama Bans Terms Related To Islam And Jihad From National Security Strategy Document
Barack Obama’s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.
The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.”
And remember this.......with the FBI purging the same terms from its counterterrorism training material.
An internal FBI investigation into its counterterrorism training has purged hundreds of bureau documents of instructional material about Muslims, some of which characterized them as prone to violence or terrorism.
The bureau disclosed initial findings from its months-long review during a meeting at FBI headquarters on Wednesday with several Arab and Muslim advocacy groups, attended by Director Robert Mueller. So far, the inquiry has uncovered and purged over 700 pages of documentation from approximately 300 presentations given to agents since 9/11
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM | Comments (1)
April 24, 2013
House Report Blames Obama and Hillary Clinton Are To Blame for Their Unforgivable Response on Benghazi For Cutting Security at Benghazi Consulate
White House Officials Altered Benghazi Talking Points To Protect Hillary Clinton For Approving Reduced Security…
House Report Blames Hillary For Cutting Security at Benghazi Consulate
The White House lied, Americans died.
A House report released today blames Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for cutting security at the Benghazi Consulate before the 9-11 attack. The report also blames the Obama Administration for lying about the attack afterward.
House Republicans have concluded that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was responsible for cutting security at the consulate in Benghazi ahead of last year’s attack there, and that the administration lied about why it downplayed terrorism as the cause of the assault.
A new report — the result of months of investigation by five different House committees — says there was plenty of intelligence that presaged the attack, but the State Department and President Obama failed to heed the warnings or give the Defense Department the authority to respond to such an attack.
The report exonerates the Pentagon itself, saying the military did what it could to respond once the attack began, but “was hindered on account of U.S. military forces not being properly postured” beforehand.
In the most damning finding, House Republicans said Mr. Obama and his team lied about the attacks afterward, first by blaming mob violence spawned by an anti-Muslim video, and then wrongly saying it had misled the public because it was trying to protect an FBI investigation.
“This progress report reveals a fundamental lack of understanding at the highest levels of the State Department as to the dangers presented in Benghazi, Libya, as well as a concerted attempt to insulate the Department of State from blame following the terrorist attacks,” the GOP investigation concluded in its 46-page report.
The Obama administration has acknowledged providing an inaccurate explanation for the attacks early on — even though officials at the Defense Department said they knew it was a terrorist assault from the beginning.
A critical report (attached below) drafted by five GOP-led House committees has determined that reduced security in Benghazi in the days leading up to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack were approved by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The report also found that White House and high-ranking officials at the State Department changed CIA talking points following the attacks, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, in order to shield the State Department from “criticism for inadequate security levels,” on the ground in Benghazi.
The 46-page report provides a timeline of events leading up to the attacks in Benghazi and investigation that followed.
Wild Thing's comment.............
Obama and Hillary both have blood on their hands. I wish with all my heart they would be punished for what they did.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (2)
Mayor Bloomberg’s NYC To Raise Minimum Age To Buy Cigarettes To 21-Years-Old ~ This should tick off our Military Especially!
Bloomberg’s NYC To Raise Minimum Age To Buy Cigarettes To 21-Years-Old
The age to legally buy cigarettes in New York City would rise to 21 from 18 under a proposal that officials unveiled on Monday, a measure that would give New York the strictest limits of any major American city.
The proposal would make the age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products the same as for purchasing liquor, but it would not prohibit people under 21 from possessing or even smoking cigarettes.
It is the latest effort in a persistent campaign to curb smoking that began soon after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office, with bans on smoking in restaurants and bars that expanded more recently to parks, beaches, plazas and other public places.
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If I was in the military or a Veteran living in New York I would be ticked off big time.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Janet Napolitano Pushes Immigration Bill for ILLEGALS
Janet Napolitano Pushes Immigration Bill for Illegals
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano mounted a vigorous defense of the Senate Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration plan on Tuesday, calling the legislation an “important first step” to reforming the nation’s immigration laws.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Napolitano said the 844-page bill would improve the immigration system in several ways: it would modernize the current legal immigration system, implement stricter accountability measures for employers and improve border security.
Napolitano also praised the provision that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
But several Republicans were still skeptical of whether the border would be sufficiently secured under the Senate legislation. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said the bill appeared to have a policy of “legalize now, enforce later.”
Another Republican, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, argued that the Senate bill gave “extraordinary” discretion to Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security on immigration matters.
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I say No to illegals and yes to our existing immigration laws.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:48 AM | Comments (1)
Krauthammer Blasts Obama: “Anybody Over the Age of 9 Knows Radical Islam Is Cause of Terrorism”
Krauthammer Blasts Obama: “Anybody Over the Age of 9 Knows Radical Islam Is Cause of Terrorism”
“I don’t know what he’s thinking but I sure know what he’s saying and doing. The lengths to which he will go to avoid telling us the truth about the enemy is becoming comical and certainly embarrassing… He refuses to use the word Islamist which is used throughout the Muslim world… And yet Obama won’t touch it because he refuses to use any words that might imply a connection between radical Islam and terrorism which as anybody who’s over the age of 9 knows is the single greatest cause of terror in the world today.”
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Obama won't because he is a muslim.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM | Comments (1)
House Report: Hillary Clinton Lied Under Oath When She Denied Knowing Benghazi Consulate Requested Additional Security
House Report: Hillary Clinton Lied Under Oath When She Denied Knowing Benghazi Consulate Requested Additional Security…
House Republicans released their report on the investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attack, having concluded that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not telling the truth when she told Congress that she wasn’t aware that officials at the U.S. mission in Benghazi had requested extra security.
“The specific security requests pertaining to Benghazi, you know were handled by the security professionals in the department,” Clinton told Congress in January. “I didn’t see those requests, they didn’t come to me, I didn’t approve them, I didn’t deny them.”
The House report suggests that Clinton received a request for more security from Gene Cretz, who preceded Christopher Stevens as ambassador to Libya.
“On April 19, 2012, the response cable from the Department of State to Embassy Tripoli, bearing Secretary Clinton’s signature, acknowledges Ambassador Cretz’s request for additional security but instead articulates a plan to scale back security assets for the U.S. Mission in Libya, including the Benghazi Mission,” the House report says.
Wild Thing's comment.................
Guilty!!!!!
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM
April 23, 2013
Obama Rides Bicycle-Powered Water Sanitation System
Obama Rides Bicycle-Powered Water Sanitation System.
Wild Thing's comment................
How appropriate...LOL the POS Obama riding a bike powered by water from the sanitation system.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (2)
Woman Who Lost Legs in Boston Terror Attack Gets Heartwarming Visit From Marine (Wounded Warrior) With Same Injuries
Woman Who Lost Legs in Boston Terror Attack Gets Heartwarming Visit From Marine (Wounded Warrior) With Same Injuries.
She lost her legs at the knees and so did he. This Marine stops by to tell her everything is gonna be just fine.
Wild Thing's comment...................
God bless this Marine and prayers for both this woman and the Marine.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Obama's Influence US Army Tells Troops to Scrape Bible Verses Off Their Weapons
US Army Tells Troops to Scrape Bible Verses Off Their Weapons
The US Army is directing troops to scrape Bible verses off of their weapons.
Army Removes Bible Reference from Scopes
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The U.S. Army is directing troops to remove a Bible inscription that a vendor etched into the serial numbers of weapon scopes, Fox News has learned.
Soldiers at Fort Wainwright in Alaska told Fox News they received a directive to turn in their scopes so the Bible references could be removed.
The scopes were made by Trijicom and referenced New Testament passages in John 8:12 and Second Corinthians 4:6. The verses appeared at the end of the scope serial numbers – “JN8:12” and “2COR4:6.”
“The biblical verse (JN8:12) must be removed utilizing a Dremel type tool and then painted black,” read instructions on how to remedy the matter.
After the letters and numbers were scraped off, soldiers were directed to use apply black paint to ensure the verses were totally covered.
Wild Thing's comment..............
So I guess it is no longer, God and country, just country now and whatever the left agenda is about.
And for those of you thinking our military will not fire on we the people if told to by Obama, dream on. I would not bet either way what would happen. Not in the AMERICA Obama has made of our country.
I love our troops so much and respect them and always will. But I am very concerned with the changes happening.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:48 AM | Comments (1)
Terrorist Fan MSNBC Martin Bashir: Boston Bombers Hurt “Peace-Loving Religion” Of Islam
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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir explains how suspected Boston Marathon bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, are the just the latest to use terror in the name of Islam – burying the “peace, compassion and kindness of the Koran.”
Wild Thing's comment..............
Disgusting!
He didn't mention the damage done by the Al Qaeda plotters intending to derail a passenger train and kill even more innocents in Canada.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
All for Murdering Babies Obama To Attend Group That Slaughters Babies Planned Parenthood Fundraiser
All for Murdering Babies Obama To Attend Group That Slaughters Babies Planned Parenthood Fundraiser
Barack Obama will attend a Planned Parenthood fundraising gala on Thursday — as defense lawyers for abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell defend him from murder charges in court.
According to the publicly-announced schedule for the week, Obama will hobnob with leaders of the abortion giant on Thursday after attending the opening of the center for pro-life President George W. Bush.
“On Thursday, the president and the first lady will attend the dedication ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Later in the day, they will return to Washington, D.C., and later in the evening, the president will attend the Planned Parenthood Gala,” the White House announced.
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The perfect marriage of Obama and planned parenthood, both are all for murdering innocent babies.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM
Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Charles Grassley in Tense Exchange over Immigration Reform Timetable
Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Charles Grassley in Tense Exchange over Immigration Reform Timetable
Here is video of Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer lecturing Republicans who have raised questions about pushing the “Gang of Eight’s” Plan through quickly, especially in light of the questions raised by the Boston Marathon Bombings, carried out by two immigrants who recently became U.S. citizens. Sen. Charles Grassley and Sen. Jeff Sessions take exception to Schumer’s remarks.
If Schumer and his cohorts try to ram this through, it is not going to be received well by many in Congress – or out on Main Street.
Wild Thing's comment...................
No way do I like this "Gang of Eight's Plan"
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 22, 2013
Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Guns Make Homes Safer
Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Guns Make Homes Safer
Following the defeat of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) so-called ‘gun safety’ legislation this week, new polling shows that a majority of Americans believe having a gun in their homes makes them safer.
As a Washington Post and ABC News poll shows, 51 percent of Americans now say having a gun in their home makes it a safer place, compared to 29 percent who say it makes their home more dangerous.
Wild Thing's comment...............
Obama won't like this poll , not at all.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM
Disgusting Dictator Obama: Don’t form opinions on Boston attacks until government decides
Obama: Don’t form opinions on Boston attacks until government decides
Americans should not decide their opinions about the Boston terror attacks until the government decides its own opinion, President Barack Obama told the nation late Friday night.
“There’s a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” Obama warned during his 10:05 p.m. EST speech from the White House.
“But when a tragedy like this happens … it’s important that we do this right,” he claimed.
“That’s why we have investigations … That’s why we have courts. And that’s why we take care not to rush to judgment — not about the motivations of these individuals; certainly not about entire groups of people,” Obama insisted.
According to video, witnesses and one of the bomber’s own statements, the bombs were placed by two immigrant Muslims with ethnic roots in war-torn Chechnya.
Chechens are an ethnic group whose homeland is in the Caucasus Mountains, south of Russia. The area was conquered by Russia armies in the early 1800s. Most Chechens are Muslims and want their own independent country.
Obama has tried to downplay the evidence that Muslims are more likely to launch terror strikes than are other immigrants or Americans. For example, his deputies have classified the attack in November 2009 by a U.S. Army Muslim in Fort Hood as a crime, not a jihad attack, despite Major Nidal Hasan’s screams of “Allahu Akbar!” as he opened fire on his fellow soldiers.
The attack killed 13 Americans soldiers and civilians, and wounded 30 more. Because it is deemed an ordinary crime, the wounded soldiers do not get the Purple Heart medals normally awarded to soldiers wounded in combat.
Obama has also sought to strengthen ties between the Democratic party and the relatively small number of Muslims in the United States.
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Muslim Obama is not liking that two Muslims ( terrorists) will be blamed for the Boston Marathon attack.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (2)
Shameful Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Use Boston Terror Attack To Push For Speeding Up Amnesty
The Boston Marathon tragedy is a reason for Congress to move faster – not slower – to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, according to two co-authors of a Senate reform package.
Some conservatives on Capitol Hill have suggested Monday’s deadly bombings – allegedly orchestrated by a pair of young immigrants from Russia’s volatile Caucasus region – should cause lawmakers to move more deliberately in their approach to immigration reform this year.
But Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) – chief architects of a sweeping bipartisan immigration proposal unveiled last week – argued Sunday that their bill will help prevent future terrorist attacks at home and should be taken up as soon as possible.
“Now is the time to bring all of the 11 million [undocumented immigrants] out of the shadows and find out who they are. Most of them are here to work, but we may find some terrorists in our midst,” Graham said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “What happened in Boston … should urge us to act quicker, not slower, when it comes to getting the 11 million identified.”
Schumer echoed that message and accused those urging a slower process of using the Boston tragedy as “an excuse” to kill the bill.
Wild Thing's comment...............
They have no shame, they are a disgrace.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
April 21, 2013
Governor Cuomo Says Boston Bombing Part of ‘New Normal’ - so we are to just accept bombings from Muslims???
Governor Cuomo Says Boston Bombing Part of ‘New Normal’
Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have canceled his morning radio appearance today in response to the ongoing manhunt for a suspect involved in Monday’s deadly bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, but another top New York official, Governor Andrew Cuomo, scheduled his own radio interview on The Capitol Pressroom soon after. Mr. Cuomo directly addressed the high-profile situation in the Bay State by employing a phrase he previously used to describe climate change in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: “the new normal.”
“It’s a terrible situation in Boston. And, unfortunately, … one gets the sense that this is more reflective of the ‘new normal,’ if you will,” he explained. “So much of society is changing so rapidly. We talk about a ‘new normal’ when it comes t0 climate change and adjusting to a change in the weather patterns. ‘New normal’ when it comes to public security in a post-9/11 world. Where these random acts of violence, which at one time were implausible, now seem all-too-frequent.”
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What a jerk, once we would accept it as the new normal it would be like giving up.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:55 AM | Comments (1)
ICE Union Head Ejected From Immigration Press Conference When He Tries To Question Chuck Schumer
ICE Union Head Ejected From Immigration Press Conference When He Tries To Question Chuck Schumer
Chris Crane, head of the immigration officers union, was pulled out of a Senate press conference today when he tried to question Sen. Chuck Schumer during the televised roll-out of the 844-page immigration rewrite.
While reporters asked questions, Schumer ignored three requests from Crane, who sought to question him about aspects of the far-reaching law, which promises to tighten enforcement of immigration laws at borders, airports and seaports.
“Will you take a question from law enforcement?” Crane asked, repeating the question twice before being removed.
Schumer ignored the question, and repeated his advocacy for the bill. Crane’s union represents agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service.
Schumer and the other Senators have struggled to control the debate about the bill, which was released this week after months of closed-door drafting. Supporters are now trying to win Senate approval of the far-reaching bill by June.
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Apparently one has to think lock step or told to shut up.
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After His Total Lies Blaming "Right Wing" For Boston Bombing, Axelrod Goes Silent After Suspects ID’d As Muslims
Former senior Obama administration advisor David Axelrod has been silent since the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects were positively identified Friday as Muslim immigrants from Chechnya. This reticence is a stark contrast to Axelrod’s speculation earlier this week that President Obama has avoided saying the Boston Marathon bombing might be related to “Tax Day.”
Axelrod said, in conversation with MSNBC host Chuck Todd, that the words “terrorist attack” have taken on a different meaning since 9/11 when the U.S. was attacked on its own soil by Islamic extremist terrorists.
“You use those words and it means something very specific in people’s minds,” said Axelrod. “And I’m sure what was going through the president’s mind is — we really don’t know who did this.”
“It was tax day,” he said, “Is it someone who was pro-?”
Axelrod quickly cut himself off before continuing on and stating, “You just don’t know. And so, I think, his attitude is let’s not put any inference into this.”
“Let’s just make clear that we’re going to get the people responsible,” he said.
Tax Day for 2013 fell on the civic holiday of Patriot’s Day, which commemorates the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord. Tax Day is also a significant day for the Tea Party, which favors small government and low taxes.
The Left, however, has branded the Tea Party as a violent and racist movement. Progressive commentators — including Michael Moore and Chris Matthews — were quick to place blame for Monday’s tragedy on the Tea Party.
But since the bombing suspects — Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and now-deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, both brothers — were positively identified by the authorities Friday morning, and their religious and cultural heritage was unearthed, Axelrod has not surfaced to retract his speculation.
Wild Thing's comment......................
He is horrible and a liar just like Obama.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
April 20, 2013
Crowds Cheer Police As Police in Watertown Leave The Scene Chants USA USA!
Crowds in Boston erupts, Chants USA USA!
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Wild Thing's comment..............
Fantastic and a HUGE thank you to the police that put their lives on the line. I do wish this 2nd terrorist had been killed, but even so I am glad they got him.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:55 AM | Comments (4)
Total POS Obama Lectures US on Diversity Following Arrest of Injured Boston Jihadist Bomber (Video)
Obama Lectures US on Diversity Following Arrest of Injured Boston Jihadist Bomber
Barack Obama came on television tonight following the arrest of injured Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Obama lectured America on the importance of diversity.
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Total asshole, every part of his DNA makes me sick!!
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Student arrested for sporting NRA t-shirt
“I never thought it would go this far because honestly I don’t see a problem with this, there shouldn’t be a problem with this,” said Jared Marcum, 8th grade student at Logan Middle School in Charleston, WV. He’s referring to his suspension, arrest and charges of obstruction and disturbing the education process – for wearing an NRA t-shirt. The shirt, with an image of a gun printed on it, landed the otherwise law-abiding teen in jail Thursday.
“I will go to the ends of the earth, I will call people, I will write letters, I will do everything in the legal realm to make sure this does not happen again,” said Jared’s father, Allen Lardieri. Logan County School District has to yet comment on the incident.
Wild Thing's comment...................
The America I grew up in is gone. There are only moments where it shows up, but other then that it is not longer exists.
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April 19, 2013
Chaos descends on Cambridge, Watertown; MIT police officer shot and killed
WATERTOWN — A scene of chaos descended on Cambridge and Watertown late Thursday night and early Friday morning, as police confirmed an MIT police officer was shot and killed, and an apparent carjacking led police on a wild chase into Watertown.
Witnesses in Watertown said they heard explosions. Police officers were screaming about improvised explosive devices. Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing. At least one of the suspects in Watertown appeared to be a man in his 20s.
FBI agents were on the scene in Watertown.
“We are aware of the situation, we are being involved, and we are monitoring,” said an FBI representative who requested anonymity because of not being authorized to speak publicly. The FBI source said early Friday it is “too early to speculate” on a relation to the Marathon bombing.
Dozens of police officers descended on Watertown Square after midnight.
“This is still extremely dangerous,” an FBI agent said. The Cambridge bomb squad arrived in Watertown shortly after 1:30 a.m.
A man in handcuffs was being questioned by the FBI in the back of an ambulance.
At Arsenal Court and Arsenal Street in Watertown, an officer bellowed: “Ya gotta get outta here. There’s an active shooter here with an active explosive. Go!”
Peter Jennings, 33, said he was sleeping just before 1 a.m. in his home on Prentiss Street in Watertown when he was awakened by a huge boom.
“It sounded like a stick of dynamite went off,” he said. “I looked out the window, and it was like nothing I’ve ever seen – blue light after blue light after blue light.”
He said more than three dozen emergency vehicles with sirens blaring were heading down Rt. 16 West. He went to the end of his street, where some neighbors were gathering. The air, he said, smelled like “at the end of a fireworks show, like a wick smell.”
“I had a bad feeling because of what happened on Monday,” he said.
John Antonucci’s 79-year-old mother called him hysterical from her home in Laurel Street. She was heard about five gun shots and didn’t know what to do.
“She was saying they’re running down the street shooting,” Antonucci said standing outside if yellow police tape. “She was crying so hard I couldn’t understand what she was talking about.”
So he told her: Stay inside the house.
Police were demanding that cellphones be turned off.
The officer, who has not been identified, was shot multiple times at 10:48 p.m., according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office. No one else was hurt, and no arrests had been made by early Friday.
The manhunt fanned out from Kendall Square over an area that has endured a tragic and tumultuous week, in the aftermath of the fatal explosions at Monday’s Boston Marathon. There was no report of a connection between the two events, but the swarm of sirens and circling helicopters rattled a region already on edge.
Police from several agencies were conducting a manhunt for the gunman across the school campus and on the T’s Red Line, according to authorities.
MIT and Cambridge police responded to a report of shots fired at 10:48 p.m. Thursday near Main and Vassar streets, according to the university.
Police officers and canine units swept the campus, and a big swath of Vassar Street was blocked.
The university issued an alert to students and faculty to remain inside.
An eerie quiet descended on the campus as teams of police officers combed the campus block by block. SWAT teams were present.
Police checked bushes and alleys and yanked on doors.
Officers from the MIT and Harvard departments, as well as Cambridge and State Police, were present.
Siddhartha Varshney was walking home from dinner with two friends when they were stopped at the police cordon.
“Initially, we thought they had caught the suspect in the bombing,” the 28-year-old said. But they then learned it was a shooting involving an MIT officer.
“Well, I — honestly — I mean, I can’t think what I make of it. The situation is a little tense,” he said. “And I hope that whoever he is gets caught.”
Few seemed to be out on the campus at the time of the shooting. One professor, standing feet from the police tape, said he came out of his office when he heard a commotion of sirens and saw police lights.
At around midnight, a frantic scene was unfolding at Massachusetts General Hospital, where a dozen police cars arrived with sirens on and several women were brought in by police, looking deeply upset.
Some other notes I took......................
Police Officer Shot And Killed On MIT Campus Near Boston – Search On For Suspect(s)
Police all racing to Watertown shooting tied to carjacking in Cambridge. Explosives being thrown from vehicle per radio traffic.
Windows all shot out of police car.
WATERTOWN, Mass. —NewsCenter 5′s Sean Kelly reported shots fired and explosive devices being detonated in Watertown.
The scene was located on Dexter Street in Watertown.
Police are urging everyone to stay inside of their homes. The area is considered extremely dangerous.
There is one suspect who is reported to be in custody. Another suspect remains on the loose, in what is described as a very active scene.
The suspects are reportedly connected to a carjacking that took place in the Cambridge
Watertown: 50+ police, shots fired near Mt Auburn St @ Lloyd Rd ATF, State police, tank-like vehicles, police fully armored…
Shooters with ‘explosives’ reported on MIT’s campus, police officer reportedly killed
10hrs after FBI releases photos of marathon suspects, four men in Watertown, Mass., firing machine guns, lobbing grenades at police.
The violence broke out when the MIT officer was shot on the school’s campus. The officer, who was not identified, was responding to reports of a disturbance on campus last night when he was shot, according to a statement from Middlesex Acting District Attorney Michael Pelgro.
The officer was found with multiple gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Pelgro said.
In addition, police were led on a chase into Watertown, where a gunfight and explosives were detonated.
12:48 AM
Police all racing to Watertown shooting tied to carjacking in Cambridge. Explosives being thrown from vehicle per radio traffic. ( someone called in and said something like 75 police cars there )
Officers turn off cellphones to avoid detonating explosives.
The police say are looking for “dark-skinned” and possibly “Middle Eastern” suspects.
WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Police have converged on a neighborhood outside Boston where there were reports of explosives being detonated and police are telling reporters to turn off their cell phones.
Dozens of officers and National Guard members are in Watertown, where television outlets report that gunfire and explosions have been heard. A helicopter is circling overhead.
Authorities early Friday were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted "fire in the hole."
Reporters are being told to move away from the scene. A police officer told a reporter: "If you want to live, turn off your cell phone."
Earlier Thursday night a campus police officer was shot and killed at MIT and authorities were searching for the person responsible.
Wild Thing's comment................
This is happening very fast so there are no articles written about it. I am taking the notes above from the news LIVE from Boston.
From a friend on Tweeter...........
WBZ Boston News @cbsboston
Absolute chaos here in Watertown. Police officer to me: "this is not a good place to be right now."
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Homebuilders Phase Out “Master Bedroom” Because It’s Racist - LOL Good grief!
Homebuilders Phase Out “Master Bedroom” Because It’s Racist
The power of political correctness know no bounds. It’s latest victim.
" A survey of 10 major Washington, D.C.-area homebuilders found that six no longer use the term “master” in their floor plans to describe the largest bedroom in the house. They have replaced it with “owner’s suite” or “owner’s bedroom” or, in one case, “mastre bedroom.”
Why? In large part for exactly the reason you would think: “Master” has connotation problems, in gender (it skews toward male) and race (the slave-master).
Enter the owner’s suite.
“I imagine it’s not only a more accurate description but also a more politically correct term of art,” said Steve Nardella, senior vice president of operations for Bethesda-based Winchester Homes Inc.
Either way, the “master suite” has been linguistically shoved aside.
Wild Thing's comment................
Hahahaha stupid absolutely stupid and of course I will never obey their BS.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (3)
April 18, 2013
Raw Video Captures Massive Explosion at Waco Fertilizer Plant – Video
Raw Video Captures Massive Explosion at Waco Fertilizer Plant
Dozens injured in fertilizer plant explosion; jarring video shows explosion's size and force
WACO, Texas — An explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent flames shooting high into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin and causing major damage to surrounding buildings.
The blast at West Fertilizer in West, a community about 20 miles north of Waco, happened shortly before 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, 45 miles to the north.
There was no immediate word from officials about fatalities or the severity of the explosion, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry said state officials were also waiting for details about the extent of the damage.
"We are monitoring developments and gathering information as details continue to emerge about this incident," Perry said in a statement. "We have also mobilized state resources to help local authorities. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of West, and the first responders on the scene."
But aerial footage showed fires still smoldering in the ruins of the plant and in several surrounding buildings, and people being treated for injuries on the flood-lit local football field, which had been turned into a staging area for emergency responders.
Debby Marak told The Associated Press that when she finished teaching her religion class Wednesday night, she noticed a lot of smoke in the area across town near the plant, which is near a nursing home. She said she drove over to see what was happening, and that when she got there, two boys came running toward her screaming that the authorities ordered everyone out because the plant was going to explode.
She said she drove about a block when the blast happened.
"It was like being in a tornado," Marak, 58, said by phone. "Stuff was flying everywhere. It blew out my windshield."
"It was like the whole earth shook."
She drove 10 blocks and called her husband and asked him to come get her. When they got to their home about 2 miles south of town, her husband told her what he'd seen: a huge fireball that rose like "a mushroom cloud."
More than two hours after the blast, there were still fires smoldering in what was left of the plant and in others burning nearby. The roof of what appeared to be a housing complex of some kind had collapsed. In aerial footage from Dallas' NBC affiliate, WDFW, dozens of emergency vehicles could be seen amassed at the scene. Entry into West was slow-going, as the roads were jammed with emergency vehicles rushing in to help out.
Authorities set up a staging area on the local high school's football field, which was lit up with floodlights. Ambulances and several dozen injured people could be seen being taken away or seated in wheelchairs as they are treated and await transport.
Department of Public Safety troopers were using their squad cars to transport those injured by the blast and fire at the plant in West, a community north of Waco, Gayle Scarbrough, a spokeswoman for the department's Waco office, told television station KWTX. She said six helicopters were also en route to help out.
Glenn A. Robinson, the chief executive of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco, told CNN that his hospital had received 66 injured people for treatment, including 38 who were seriously hurt. He said the injuries included blast injuries, orthopedic injuries, large wounds and a lot of lacerations and cuts. The hospital has set up a hotline for families of the victims to get information, he said.
Robinson did not immediately return messages from the AP.
American Red Cross crews from across Texas were being sent to the site, the organization said. Red Cross spokeswoman Anita Foster said the group was working with emergency management officials in West to find a safe shelter for residents displaced from their homes. She said teams from Austin to Dallas and elsewhere are being sent to the community north of Waco.
A West Fire Department dispatcher said any casualties would be transported to hospitals in Waco, which is about 90 miles north of Austin.
The explosion knocked out power to many area customers and could be heard and felt for miles around.
Brad Smith, who lives 45 miles north of West in Waxahachie, told the station that he and his wife heard what sounded like a thunderclap.
Lydia Zimmerman, told KWTX that she, her husband and daughter were in their garden in Bynum, 13 miles from West, when they heard multiple blasts.
"It sounded like three bombs going off very close to us," she said.
UPDATE: from FOX News
Explosion rips through fertilizer plant near Waco, causing more than 100 injuries and an unknown number of fatalities
he explosion at West Fertilizer in West, a community about 20 miles north of Waco, happened shortly before 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, 45 miles to the north.
Wild Thing's comment..................
Scary and the sound can be heard in the video above.
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Obama: But 'Everybody' Agreed With Me?!? - NO You are so wrong Obama!
Obama: But 'Everybody' Agreed With Me?!?
One of the most offensive parts of President Barack Obama's tantrum at the White House after losing the gun control fight today was also one of the most comical. Venting his righteous anger at his opponents, Obama repeatedly scolded them for abandoning what "everybody" had agreed the country would do after Tucson, Newtown, etc.
In Obama's fevered, self-aggrandizing imagination, "everybody" agreed that the country needed to change according to his designs. Never mind the Republican House, or the 47% of voters who went the other way in 2012, or the minority who clings (proudly, not bitterly) to rights intended to prevent would-be "everybodies" from abusing them. Obama doesn't just dislike dissent; he pretends it doesn't exist. Either he was setting Congress up (again) as an electoral foil, or doing a very poor impression of Louis XIV. All that "everybody" agrees to is what is written and amended in the Constitution.
If "everybody" truly agreed with Obama, we could simply amend the Constitution again. But "everybody" is a slightly larger universe than Obama and his entourage. The president was a cartoon villain on Wednesday. The left, � la MSNBC, is making a good show of swooning over his "emotion." But they know how silly it is, how unconvincing "no-drama Obama" sounded. "Everybody" knows it.
Wild Thing's comment.................
More then anything I want Obama to know with all his being how much he is the worst most hated president our country has ever had. Feel it and own it jerk. We are sick of your destroying our country.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Democrat Sen. Max Baucus on ObamaCare Implementation: “I Just See a Huge Train Wreck Coming Down” – You Idiots Voted for Obama and this mess!
Democrat Sen. Max Baucus on ObamaCare Implementation: “I Just See a Huge Train Wreck Coming Down”
Wild Thing's comment.............
I think the only reason we are seeing some of the Democrats speaking out about ObamaDEATHcare is because they are trying to cover their asses in some weird way. BUT it is their fault we are stuck with it, they should have voted NO when they had a chance.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM | Comments (1)
Roofers Union the First Union To Officially Call For The Repeal Of Obamacare
United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers:
Our Union and its members have supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his terms in office.
But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act’s provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it.
These provisions jeopardize our multi-employer health plans, have the potential to cause a loss of work for our members, create an unfair bidding advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to their workers, and in the worst case, may cause our members and their families to lose the benefits they currently enjoy as participants in multi-employer health plans.
For decades, our multi-employer health and welfare plans have provided the necessary medical coverage for our members and their families to protect them in times of illness and medical needs. This collaboration between labor and management has been a model of success that should be emulated rather than ignored. I refuse to remain silent, or idly watch as the ACA destroys those protections.
I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most important asset: our members and their families.
Wild Thing's comment......................
These people in all Unions should be doing this and why the hell did they vote to put the POS Obama back in office.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
Benghazi Whistleblowers Set to Talk
Benghazi Whistleblowers Set to Talk
According to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has covered the Benghazi terror attack resulting in the death of four Americans including our Ambassador to Libya, new whistleblowers are speaking to Congressional investigators.
For months, Republican members of Congress have complained about lack of access to the survivors of the Benghazi attacks, and the Obama administration has been anything but forthcoming on their location and when Republicans will have the opportunity to question those witnesses.
Wild Thing's comment...............
Finally, since day one they have not been allowed to speak which is absolutely horrible.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 17, 2013
Freudian slip? Sen. Harry Reid calls bill "anti-gun legislation"
Freudian slip? Sen. Harry Reid calls bill "anti-gun legislation"
Wild Thing's comment...................
LOL a big oops Harry hhahahaa
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM
Rush: Somebody Like Obama Buddy Bill Ayers Set Off Boston Bombs
Rush: Somebody Like Obama Buddy Bill Ayers Set Off Boston Bombs
Wild Thing's comment..............
I agree Rush!!!
Remember what Bill Ayers said ......''I don't regret setting bombs, I feel we didn't do enough.'' - Bill Ayers, Obama's domestic terrorist mentor & friend, September 11, 2001
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM
Obama has SLASHED budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45 per cent
- $20 million budget under Bush became $11 million under Obama
-Both administrations neglected domestic bombing prevention, devoting a tiny fraction of the $1 billion earmarked for IED prevention overseas
-Obama issued a lengthy 'National Policy for Countering Improvised Explosive Devices' in February but a spokesman won't say if it failed
Barack Obama's administration has cut the budget nearly in half for preventing domestic bombings, MailOnline can reveal.
Under President George W. Bush, the Department of Homeland Security had $20 million allocated for preventing the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by terrorists working inside the United States. The current White House has cut that funding down to $11 million.
That assessment comes from Robert Liscouski, a former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 that killed three Americans and injured at least 173 others.
He told MailOnline that the Obama-era DHS is, on the whole, about as well-positioned as it was during the Bush administration to handle the aftermath of the April 15 bombings in Boston, 'but the Obama administration has continued to cut the budget for offices such as the Office for Bombing Prevention from $20 million started under Bush, to $11 million today.'
Wild Thing's comment.................
Once again Obama IMO is connected to bad things happening and deaths.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:48 AM
Sen. Ted Cruz Pays Tribute to Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Sen. Ted Cruz Pays Tribute to Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Wild Thing's comment...................
Well done and thank you Sen. Cruz.
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Total Disrespect from Obama.....Obama Not Sending Any One Currently Working In Obama Admin To Thatcher Funeral For Representation
Not Sending Any One Currently Working In Obama Admin To Thatcher Funeral For Representation
The US is to send distinctly low-key official representation to Lady Thatcher’s funeral on Wednesday, with a delegation led by George Shultz and James Baker, who both served as US secretary of state while Thatcher was in power.
While Barack Obama was invited, he has opted to send a presidential delegation comprising no serving politicians. Shultz was secretary of state to Ronald Reagan while Baker served the elder George Bush. Also representing Obama will be Barbara Stephenson, chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in London, and Louis Susman, the recently departed ambassador to Britain.
Separately, the Republican party is sending three members of the House of Representatives: Marsha Blackburn, who will lead the delegation, along with Michele Bachmann and George Holding. Blackburn is a leading fiscal conservative, while Bachmann, a member of the hardline conservative Tea Party faction, became internationally known during her spectacular if brief bid for the 2012 presidential nomination.
Another leading Republican conservative and attempted 2012 nominee, Newt Gingrich, is also among the confirmed attendees. Ronald Reagan’s widow, Nancy, was invited but has said she felt unable to make the trip aged 91.
Wild Thing's comment...................
Like it has been said pay attention or not to what Obama says, but watch what he does it speaks loud and clear of his agenda and how he feels about others.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM
Law Enforcement Disagrees with President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg on Gun Control
Law Enforcement Disagrees with President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg
Wild Thing's comment.............
Good for those in law enforcement standing up to Obama on this.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:44 AM
April 16, 2013
3 dead and more than 130 injured ini Terrorist Attack at Boston Marathon
Source tells FoxNews.com an apartment in a Boston suburb is being searched in connection with twin bomb blasts near Boston Marathon finish line Monday, as a senior White House official tells Fox News the blasts are believed to be an act of terrorism. The blasts left at least 3 dead and more than 130 injured.
The deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed at least three and injured at least 144 is believed to be an act of terrorism, senior White House officials told Fox News.
Two explosions tore through the finish line of the world-famous race just before 3 p.m., going off simultaneously as throngs of onlookers watched runners complete the 26.2-mile trek. The timing of the blasts immediately sparked suspicions of a deliberate act.
“When multiple devices go off, that’s an act of terrorism,” a senior administration official told Fox News, just moments after President Obama delivered a statement to the nation and did not use the word “terror.”
While the White House does in fact believe terrorism was at play, lawmakers were increasingly reaching the same conclusion.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, reportedly said her understanding it “that it’s a terrorist incident.”
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., top Republican on that committee, also said that “as the evidence mounts that this was a terrorist attack, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies must do whatever is necessary to find and interrogate those responsible so we can prevent similar attacks."
Authorities in New York, meanwhile, are deploying counter-terrorism vehicles around landmark sites in Manhattan, including prominent hotels, according to the New York City Police Department.
Nearly 25,000 people, including runners from around the world, competed in Boston's celebrated 26.2-mile race, attracting huge throngs of onlookers, especially near the finish line.
Wild Thing's comment...................
Obama is preoccupied with worrying about not saying terrorists just like he would not do it with the Fort Hood killings when the man yelled Allah Akbar. sheesh I guess he does not want to speak ill of his Islam buddies.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (2)
Doctors amputate limbs as marathon celebration turns to carnage
Doctors amputate limbs as marathon celebration turns to carnage
The full horror of Monday's bomb attacks in Boston was reflected in emergency rooms across the city as doctors were forced to perform amputations and treat injuries normally expected on a battlefield.
Around 11 p.m. ET, at least 144 people were reported to have been taken to hospital with wounds sustained from the blasts that brought terror and chaos to the city's annual marathon race.
Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed, while at least 17 people are reported to be in a critical condition.
Images in the immediate aftermath showed people being carried away on stretchers -- one man in a wheelchair had blood all over his face and legs.
While many patients were treated for cuts and scrapes, doctors have also been "pulling ball bearings out of people in the emergency room," suggesting the bombs were designed to propel shrapnel, according to one terrorism expert briefed on the Boston blasts, though CNN is yet to confirm this.
Medical teams have also carried out at least 10 amputations and treated many leg injuries, suggesting the device was low to the ground, according to CNN's Deborah Feyerick.
Among the 28 people taken to the city's Brigham and Women's Hospital, the most common types of injuries are to the bone and tissue, hospital spokesman Tom Langford told CNN.
He said nine of those patients have potentially limb-threatening wounds. A 3-year-old victim was transferred to Boston Children's Hospital for treatment.
Amputated limbs
Dr. Peter Fagenholz, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, told reporters he treated many of the 29 patients who arrived at the hospital for shrapnel wounds.
"Many of the victims were hit with "a lot of small, metal debris," he said.
"Some people have asked already whether they were BBs or parts of bombs," he said, referring to earlier reports that ball bearings have been pulled from victims. "We can't say whether they were placed their intentionally or whether they were just part of the environment."
He said the most serious wounds "have been combined, complex lower injuries that involve blood vessels, bone and tissue." Some of the patients had to have limbs amputated, Fagenholz added.
"A number of patients will require repeat operations and serial operations over the next couple of days," he said, adding that he had been in surgery for almost 14 hours.
Describing the horror
Theresa Panter, who had been running in the marathon, described the scene as she approached the finishing line.
"When I heard the bomb and saw the reaction of the spectators, I was just alarmed. Then I was pushed back by a spectator and then a Boston Athletic official -- he grabbed a bunch of us and pushed us back. It was pretty upsetting."
Her husband, Dr. Allan Panter, was in the crowd and described how he ended up tending to people on the streets.
"I saw at least six to seven people down next to me -- they protected me from the blast. One lady expired, one gentleman lost both his limbs, his lower extremities. Most of the injuries were mainly lower extremity injuries.
"I could not figure out why the young lady had expired, I could not find any injury on her thorax."
Read the full wrap-up of the terror attack in Boston
Witness: 'I saw blood everywhere'
Wild Thing's comment...............
I hope and pray they catch the people or person that did this.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM
Jordanian Islamist,Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah Cheer Boston Marathon Bombings:“Happy to See the Horror in America”
Jordanian Islamist,Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah Cheer Boston Marathon Bombings:“Happy to See the Horror in America”
Shortly after terror bombs exploded and murdered over 12 people at the Boston Marathon, members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah were reported to be dancing in the streets of Gaza, handing out candies to passerbys.
A number of Palestinians had danced in the street in celebration of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 on the World Trade Center and Washington resulting in the deaths of thousands of Americans.
The head of an Islamic terror organization in Jordan – the Muslim Salafi group says he’s “happy to see the horror in America” after the bombing attacks in Boston.
“American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood,” said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted in an al-Qaeda-linked plot to attack US and other Western diplomatic missions in Jordan in 2003.
“Let the Americans feel the pain we endured by their armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and killing our people there,” he said today.
A Mideast counterterrorism official based in Jordan said the blasts “carry the hallmark of an organized terrorist group, like al-Qaeda.”
AP Report about Jordanian Muslim.........
The head of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group said early Tuesday that he was “happy to see the horror in America” after the explosions in Boston.
“American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood,” said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted in an al-Qaida-linked plot to attack U.S. and other Western diplomatic missions in Jordan in 2003.
“Let the Americans feel the pain we endured by their armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and killing our people there,” he said early Tuesday.
Al-Chalabi served seven years in prison for his part in the foiled attack. His group is outlawed in Jordan.
A Mideast counterterrorism official based in Jordan said the blasts “carry the hallmark of an organized terrorist group, like al-Qaida.” He did not give actual evidence linking al-Qaida to the bombing.
Wild Thing's comment...................
Yep and this is no surprise, they want us all dead, Screw you Islam and your followers.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:48 AM
Obama's State Dept has “ramped up” programs to bring Muslim students to US
State Dept has “ramped up” programs to bring Muslim students to US
That’s a roundabout way of saying they are importing Muslims to the U.S. via US aims to engage Muslim world via higher education | MuslimVillage.com. h/t halalporkshop
The idea of “education diplomacy” has “really arrived” at the highest levels of American foreign policy, a US State Department official has told an international higher education conference.
Meghann Curtis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs at the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, said that the bureau had always been driven by the notion that “we’d be a more stable, peaceful and prosperous world if we could all get to know one another”. But she said that the issue had recently become “incredibly important”.
Engagement with the Middle East and North Africa, and other Muslim-majority countries, was a top priority to address a “big deficit” in mutual understanding, she said in a round-table session, “The importance of academic exchange in foreign affairs” at the Association of International Education Administrators annual conference in New Orleans.
“I was having a conversation with folks at the White House, in the policy shop over there, and this idea of education diplomacy has really arrived,” she said.
She also said programmes to bring students and scholars from Muslim-majority countries into the US had been “ramped up”.
Educational diplomacy, plunder, taxation for Islamization, creeping sharia…call it whatever you want. It does nothing for American citizens who are being robbed by corrupt politicians and social engineers. No mention on how much this is costing taxpayers.
Wild Thing's comment................
Wake up you idiots that voted for this POS Obama.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM | Comments (2)
One of the Boston Marathon Runners recorded the exact moment of the detonation
From YouTube:
"This is a video my mom recorded of the explosion. We are so lucky we got out of there when we did. My mom didn't finish the race but we are all safe and that's what matters. My heart goes out to victims"
Wild Thing's comment.....................
Prayers for the victims and their families.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 15, 2013
War Veteran Arrested for get this ....“Rudely Displaying” Rifle
PHOTO'S and Video's at link.....CLICK HERE.............. ( Includes photo of Army Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham with President G.W. Bush)
War Veteran Arrested for “Rudely Displaying” Rifle
A decorated war veteran on a Boy Scout hike with his 15-year-old son was arrested alongside a Texas country road after a police officer accused him of “rudely displaying” a firearm.
Army Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham told Fox News he was illegally disarmed by members of the Temple Police Dept. – even though he held the proper permits to carry his weapons.
Grisham and his son were on a 10-mile hike in a rural area populated by wild boars and cougars. He was carrying an AR-15 rifle and a .45 caliber pistol.
He was charged with resisting arrest – even though video his son filmed of the incident clearly showed that Grisham did not resist arrest. Police later reduced the charges to interfering with a peace officer while performing a duty – a class B misdemeanor.
“I’m still frankly and honestly 100 percent confused about what I’m being charged with,” Grisham said.
Temple Police told local media that the Fort Hood soldier refused to hand of his weapon – leading to his arrest. However, the video shows that Grisham complied with their demands.
One of the officers told Grisham that anyone holding a gun is considered dangerous, according to a 15-minute video obtained by Fox News.
“In this day and age people are alarmed when they see someone with what you have,” one of the officers told a handcuffed Grisham. “They don’t care what the law is.”
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At one point in the video Grisham asked the officers why they failed to ask to see his carry and conceal permit.
The video shows the arresting officer telling the Fort Hood soldier that he was “rudely displaying” the AR-15.
Grisham, who is a “huge Constitutionalist,” then asked the officer if he cared what the law is.
“The easy wrong would have been to surrender my rights and allow the cops to disarm me,” he said. “That’s the easy wrong to me. The hard right is putting ourselves on the line knowing that something could happen.”
Grisham told Fox News he plans on fighting the charges and suing the police department for what he considered to be an illegal arrest and violating his Constitutional rights.
“For the first time in my life, I had to sit in jail,” he said. “I’ve never been in jail — never been accused of a crime. I was treated like a street thug.”
A pre-trial hearing has been set for May 29th.
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This BS is way out of control! This is very disturbing. What is becoming of our once-free nation?!?
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (3)
Good Grief! Mohammed Now One Of The Most Popular Baby Names In Minnesota
Mohammed Now One Of The Most Popular Baby Names In Minnesota, Cracks Top 100 For First Time
Mohamed has made the list of most popular baby boy names in Minnesota, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Mohamed was the 98th most popular boy’s name in 2011 in the state. The SSA says Minnesota parents named 73 boys after the founder of Islam in that year.
This is the first time the name has appeared on the list the SSA releases each year.
Mohamed’s place on the list is not surprising considering some recent statistics.
“The name, in its several variations, is one of the most popular worldwide for Muslim parents,” according to the Star Tribune. “It has risen on Minnesota’s list as the state’s population has rapidly changed. From 2000 to 2010, the number of residents of color grew 55 percent, and Minnesota’s fast-growing Somali population is the largest in the United States.”
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It is so sickening how our country carters to the religion of the terrorists that want us all dead.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (3)
April 14, 2013
Obama HATES Charities..Obama Budget Discourages Giving To Charities, Increases ‘Charity Tax’
Obama Budget Discourages Giving To Charities, Increases ‘Charity Tax’
Obama’s long-awaited budget proposal, to be released today, does not come right out and say that it intends to reduce contributions to charity—but that is almost certainly what would happen were it to become law. Here’s why. The White House has effectively doubled down on a tax change it has been pushing for four years that would limit the value of the charitable tax deduction. The Administration has, since 2009, pushed unsuccessfully to allow only 28 cents on a dollar donated to charity to be deducted—even though the top tax rate for the wealthy donors who make most use of the deduction has been 35 percent. In the budget released today, the President again proposes to cap the charitable deduction at 28 percent—despite the fact that the top rate on the highest earners has increased to 39.6 percent. Think of it this way: the White House proposal would raise the cost of giving to charity from 60 cents per dollar to 72 cents per dollar. That’s a 20 percent increase in what can be called the “charity tax.”
When one taxes something more, of course, one gets less of it—and it’s likely that the current $168 billion in itemized charitable giving would decline. Indeed, Indiana University’s Center for Philanthropy has previously estimated that capping the charitable tax deduction’s value at 28 percent—even when the top income tax rate was 35 percent—would lower giving by 1.3 percent, or some $2.18 billion in 2010. The new proposal would likely take an even bigger bite from giving. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that the reduction in giving could be as high as $9 billion a year.
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Lefties do not believe in charity; they believe in entitlement. Studies have consistently shown that liberals give much less to charity than conservatives. This is simply Obama’s way of raising taxes on conservatives at the expense of charities. Obama should be ashamed of this heartless political calculation.
Obama is a total worthless POS as a human being he is despicable.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:55 AM | Comments (2)
Gov. Rick Perry To Gun Companies: “There’s Still A Place For Freedom That Is Very Much Alive And Well, That Place Is Called Texas"
Gov. Rick Perry To Gun Companies: “There’s Still A Place For Freedom That Is Very Much Alive And Well, That Place Is Called ‘Texas’”
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday said a gun manufacturer that has decided to leave Connecticut should “come on down” to the Lone Star State.
PTR Industries, a maker of military-style rifles, threatened to leave Connecticut after the passage of one of the toughest gun-control laws in the United States. Connecticut enacted the measure in the wake of the Newtown school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six adults.
“Hey, PTR,” Perry posted on Twitter on Friday. “Texas is still wide open for business!! Come on down!”
The Connecticut law bans high-capacity ammunition clips of the kind used in the December school shooting and adds to the firearms covered by the state’s assault-weapons ban.
A second Connecticut gun company, Stag Arms, a maker of AR-15 style rifles, is also threatening to leave the state. The companies are being wooed by officials from gun-friendlier states such as Florida and Arkansas, as well as Texas.
“We want to send a message that Texas is wide open for business, whether you’re a weapons manufacturer or whether you’re a tubular steel manufacturer,” Perry told reporters in Austin on Friday.
“There is still a place for freedom that is very much alive and well,” the Republican governor added. “That place is called Texas.”
Wild Thing's comment..................
Good for Gov Perry!!!
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (2)
Shades Of Obamacare: Illegal Immigration Bill To Be Rushed To Hearing Without Senators Having Time To Read It
Shades Of Obamacare: Illegal Immigration Bill To Be Rushed To Hearing Without Senators Having Time To Read It
The “Gang of Eight” senators will release their immigration bill on Tuesday, just one day before the only scheduled hearing, according to news reports, bolstering GOP charges that advocates are planning to rush the controversial bill through the Senate before the public knows what is in it.
The bill is to be released April 16, according to a Friday report by The Associated Press.
The next day, before other senators have time to understand what is in the complex bill, Vermont Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy is slated to hold an April 17 hearing with one witness, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano.
There is no evidence that Democrats plan to hold additional hearings that would help senators — and Americans — to get testimony from immigration, police and wage experts about the workability and impact of the bill, which reportedly includes more than 1,000 pages.
The Democrats’ blitz has prompted protests and requests for additional hearings from GOP Senators, including Alabama Sen. Jess [ed.- they mean Jeff] Sessions, the ranking chairman of the Senate’s budget committee.
The rush has also put Sen. Marco Rubio in a political vice.
He is one of four GOP senators who helped drafted the bill, but he earlier said he didn’t want to be part of process that would rush a bill through the Senate.
“I don’t want to be part of a process that comes up with some bill in secret and brings it to the floor and gives people a take it or leave it,” he told Rush Limbaugh’s listeners Jan. 29. “I want this place to work the way it’s supposed to work, with every senator having input and the public having input.”
During April, Rubio asked Democrats in the gang, including Schumer, for extra hearings but was rebuffed.
Sen. Lindsey Graham has repeatedly suggested that only one hearing is needed.
McCain said April 11 he supported Rubio’s call for more hearings. Despite McCain’s critical role in the process, there is no sign that his verbal support has persuaded Democrats to hold additional hearings in any Senate committees.
Despite the apparent failure to get additional hearings, Rubio will campaign hard for passage of the still-secret bill by making the case to conservative talk shows and mainstream media outlets today as he will be appearing on 7of the Sunday political talk shows on TV.
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I don't care what bill or plan they have none of them will be honoring the existing immigration laws we have on the books now. It is stupid what they want to do and totally unfair to the people waiting as they obey our laws to become American citizens.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM | Comments (1)
NY Police Confiscate Guns, Allegedly For Mental Health Reasons Under New SAFE Act; Get Wrong Person Too
NY Police Confiscate Guns, Allegedly For Mental Health Reasons Under New SAFE Act; Get Wrong Person Too
In a surprising turnaround, New York State Police have admitted that they made a mistake when they confiscated the guns and suspended the permit of an Erie County resident on the grounds of mental health.
Late Wednesday, Erie County, NY, released a statement (posted below) blaming the New York State Police for giving them bad information regarding the suspension of a pistol permit and demand to surrender firearms sent to Amherst resident David Lewis.
(Mr. Lewis was not identified in our original story, his name has since been released in conjunction with court documents filed by his attorney, Jim Tresmond.)
“Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in New York’s SAFE Act,” the release begins.
“When the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person … it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,” the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.
Not only was it offensive and unconstitutional, but they also had the wrong person. A mental health provision that is not narrowly drawn is susceptible of broad interpretation and can be used to deny rights very easily.
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Wow! Scary stuff!
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
Wounded Marine Vet Sued By City for Flying Military Flags at His Restaurant (Video)
Wounded Marine Vet Sued By City for Flying Military Flags at His Restaurant
Orlando restaurant owner Eddie Colosimo, a wounded Marine Corps veteran, was told this week he could no longer fly military flags in front of his business establishment.
Colosimo is being fined $300 a day by the City of Holly Hill for refusing to take the flags down.
Eddie Colosimo runs Holy Hill’s Bikers for First Amendments Rights restaurant and bar. It’s a non-profit that helps support military veterans.
Colosimo, a wounded Marine Corps vet, is passionate about United States Armed Forces. His granddaughter, grandson, and son-in-law are all serving in different branches of the military. So, Colosimo decided to fly military flags representing all our servicemen and women in front of his the restaurant.
“These flags represent our men and women all over the world for us today!” he said.
These flags have been here every weekend for two years, but just this week, Colosimo received a letter from the city informing him that flying the flags violates a new city code passed in March.
“The fines will start today (Friday) for every day the flags fly,” he told us. “Please don’t try to tell me my Army, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force flags are flutter signs, and compare them to beer signs. That doesn’t fly!”
The new law requires businesses to apply for a permit to display a temporary sign or banner on their property; however, the American, POW, and state flags are allowed.
Now, Colosimo is being fined $300 a day by the City of Holly Hill. Officials just announced that they will hold a special hearing in two weeks to discuss the matter. For now, Colosimo says these flags aren’t going anywhere.
Wild Thing's comment......................
God bless this Veteran!!!! There is no excuse for what they are doing to him.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 13, 2013
No Heroes at Kentucky School District as it Bows To Vile Militant Atheist Group’s Demands, Removes 10 Commandments Displays
Kentucky School District Bows To Militant Atheist Group’s Demands, Removes 10 Commandments Displays
The Breathitt County School District in Kentucky has removed long-standing Ten Commandments displays in local public schools.
The move comes after the Freedom From Religion Foiundation (FFRF), an atheist and church-state separatist group, sent a letter complaining over the presence of the religious documents.
According to the FFRF, a tipster alerted the group that the Ten Commandments were displayed inside numerous classrooms in the high school, middle school and elementary schools, WKYT-TV reports.
After receiving this information, the group, famous for going after perceived violations of the First Amendment, petitioned the school district to remove these religious elements. Following the furor, the displays were taken down this week; the complaint claims that they had been hanging for many years inside the schools.
Here’s how the Kentucky Board of Education responded to the incident:
“The display of religious materials, such as a painting of a religious figure or a copy of the Ten Commandments, in a public school violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on the establishment or endorsement of religion by a public agency. A school or district that displays copies of the Ten Commandments without the inclusion of other historical documents and not as part of a historical/comparative display is in violation of the U.S. Constitution. See the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding on this issue in Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39, 101 S.Ct. 192 (1980). The Kentucky Department of Education’s focus in Breathitt County is on student achievement and college and career readiness and using its resources to support those efforts.”
Thus, it seems atheists and the FFRF have won this round of debate, as district officials are complying with the mandate.
Wild Thing's comment....................
OK so where is the outrage from the people that live there. If they just stay silent they IMO will be just as bad as the freaking atheist's.
Our country is really turning into a country of wimps.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (3)
Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller: ObamaCare is “Just Beyond Comprehension” ~ Yes and Obama is forcing this mess on us!
What we knew it was, and would be, all along – a total mess.
Democrat Sen. Jay Rockefeller – one of the big supporters of ObamaCare – was speaking at a Senate hearing on the nomination of Marilyn Tavenner to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Rockefeller described the “ACA” – “Affordable Care Act,” which is “ObamaCare,” as the “most complex” legislation ever passed by Congress, and described it further as “just beyond comprehension.”
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It is a total mess and is about controlling our lives and our health, and death. Add to that to have the Nazi IRS running it scares the hell out of me.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (2)
Democrat Rep. Ellison On Obama's Budget: "Could Undermine His Legacy" ~ It is THAT Bad!!!
Democrat Rep. Ellison On Obama's Budget: "Could Undermine His Legacy"
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) weighs in on President Obama’s budget and talks about the issues he finds fault with. He says the progressive Congress will not support the parts of the budget dealing with chained CPI and Social Security and observes, "this could undermine (the president’s) legacy."
Please CLICK HERE to see the video of this.
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Well well when his own jerks speak out maybe the media will be forced to tell the truth for a change. We will see.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:48 AM
Cheap and Petty Biden pocketed $26,400 renting cottage to Secret Service
Biden pocketed $26,400 renting cottage to Secret Service...
Landlord Joe Biden pocketed $26,400 in 2012 renting cottage to the Secret Service
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, took in $26,400 in 2012 by renting a cottage on the property of their Delaware home to the Secret Service, tax records released by the White House revealed.
They netted $17,944 of that rental money.
The arrangement under which the vice president charged the Secret Service personnel for staying on his Delaware property was first reported by The Washington Times in 2011.
The 2012 payouts were part of the $385,072 in adjusted gross income the Bidens reported to the IRS in 2012, according to their 2012 tax returns.
They reported paying $87,851 in total federal tax for 2012. The amount was roughly the same as it was the previous two years.
The couple contributed just $7,190 to charity, including $2,400 to the Annual Catholic Appeal for the Diocese of Wilmington, Del., $1,000 to the Westminster Presbyterian Church and $1,000 to the Northern Virginia Community College Education Foundation.
They also donated $2,000 worth of household items to Goodwill and the Ministry of Caring, a Wilmington-based nonprofit serving the poor and homeless.
The Bidens listed donations of clothing, boots, kitchenware, glassware, bicycles, toys, pottery and kitchenware to Goodwill and furniture and exercise equipment to The Ministry of Caring.
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I am so fed up with the left. I swear when the next disaster happens all I want to know is how many were democrats and those people will never get my sympathy nor compassion no matter what.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
Obama and the Democrats Turning Newtown Parents Into A Dozen Cindy Sheehans
Rush: Democrats Turning Newtown Parents Into A Dozen Cindy Sheehans
'The Newtown parents are human shields in a sense. The Newtown parents are out there to protect the Democrats from any criticism'
Rush: "I think it's shameless, shameful, this regime, the way they use victims, poor people as props and pawns. I just saw that a parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook is gonna give the weekly presidential address on Saturday. It's shameful. You know exactly what the purpose of it's gonna be"
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I agree and it is two fold, they are being used by Obama and the rest of the left and at the same time the parents are not thinking straight because of sooooo much grief and pain or more of them would realize new laws mean nothing to bad people only to the law abiding people.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:44 AM | Comments (1)
April 12, 2013
Liberals angry at Obama budget - They better be, Obama wants to steal from all of us!
Wild Thing's comment...................
Obama wants it all and then some more.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (1)
Fort Bragg Forced To Cancel 30 Year Tradition of Fourth Of July Celebration Because Of Obama's Sequester Cuts
Fort Bragg Forced To Cancel Fourth Of July Celebration Because Of Sequester Cuts
Fort Bragg is canceling its July 4th celebration on the Main Post Parade Field because of budget cuts and worker furloughs.
The event – a tradition for more than 30 years – usually attracts 50,000 people and includes what many believe to be among the best fireworks shows in the region.
“Our reduced operating budget for the remainder of this year forces many very tough decisions,” said Lt. Gen. Daniel B. Allyn, commanding general of 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, in a statement this morning. “With overtime pay costs of $120,000, the 4th of July celebration is unsupportable under these fiscal realities. With a pending civilian workforce furlough and a 34 percent operational budget cut, we’re prioritizing our services to ensure our readiness and care of service members, civilians and families.”
The announcement came as a surprise to many at Fort Bragg and surrounding community. It also kick-started efforts to save the event.
"Everyone understands we're not upset at Fort Bragg," said Courtney Boyce, a military wife and member of the Facebook group Operation Save Fourth of July. "We understand why they're doing it, but it doesn't take away from the disappointment. This is what makes Fort Bragg Fort Bragg. It's not just local. . It's like taking a piece of history."
Annual tradition
Fort Bragg's Independence Day celebration at the Main Post Parade Field and its fireworks show have become an annual tradition for many who live in the region or have ties to the post. It often attracts national music acts, including Charlie Daniels, Colt Ford, Little Big Town and Gloriana.
It has been held for more than 30 years, McCollum said.
"We know that it is a major draw to this region of North Carolina," he said. "We know it is a very emotional decision, especially for people in this region."
Lt. Gen. Daniel B. Allyn, commanding general of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, said the reduced operating budget has called for many tough decisions.
Allyn said the July Fourth event was "unsupportable under these fiscal realities."
"With a pending civilian workforce furlough and a 34 percent operational budget cut, we're prioritizing our services to ensure our readiness and care of service members, civilians and families," Allyn said in a statement.
Hundreds have complained on social media.
Jessica Ruopp, whose husband serves in the 82nd Airborne Division, said her family is devastated by the news.
Last year was her first on Fort Bragg and with her husband in Afghanistan, she took her family to the Fourth festivities.
"We had a blast," she said.
Ruopp said she would be willing to do away with celebrity bands and food and drink vendors if it meant saving the event.
"I think this cancellation is a travesty. Celebrating our country's freedom (on a military base no less) reminds us what our spouses are fighting for," Ruopp said in an email. "I remember watching the fireworks last year with a sense of pride and adoration for my deployed husband. I so wished he had been there to see the gorgeous display of fireworks, but I understood why he could not be."
McCollum said the decision was necessary to fill other budget shortfalls.
"We've had to make a number of cuts on the post, but maintaining our primary mission - which the primary mission is to train, deploy, recover our soldiers from combat operations and to take care of their families - that'll always be our number one priority on this installation," McCollum said.
Wild Thing's comment..................
Asshole Obama, damn him.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Insanity of Obama’s Tax and Spend Budget
Insanity of Obama’s Tax and Spend Budget
From House Republican Conference, a nice new ad that highlights the “insanity” of Barack Obama’s tax and spend budget proposal and its impact on jobs.
Wild Thing's comment.................
Obama is totally dedicated to destroying our country and somehow there has got to be some elected that will not let this keep happening. Our side the side of those that love America, they have got to stand strong against this POS Obama.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
Rush Limbaugh: Democrats’ Ultimate Goal is to “Separate You from Your Guns”; Destroy the 2nd Amendment – He is so correct!!!
Rush Limbaugh: Democrats’ Ultimate Goal is to “Separate You from Your Guns”; Destroy the 2nd Amendment
Described about as clearly as possible by Rush Limbaugh – the “long-term” goal of the Democrats to destroy the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They want to “separate you from your guns,” Rush said. He described today’s Gun Control battle as another “skirmish” in a long war by the Left to achieve that ultimate objective of taking away all the guns from the citizens in American society.
Wild Thing's comment.................
Yep that is exactly what part of their agenda is about.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM | Comments (1)
April 11, 2013
Maryland DEMOCRAT Governor Martin O’Malley Taxes Rain
Maryland Governor Taxes Rain
Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.
The tax, officially known as a "storm water management fee," will be enforced in nine of the state's counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to "raise revenue to cleanup the Chesapeake Bay," according to MarylandReporter.com.
Former 2012 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino bashes the tax in a Wednesday afternoon press release.
The law "requires individuals, businesses, and even charitable organizations and houses of worship to pay a tax based on the amount of rain that falls on their property and the 'impervious surfaces' on their land," he says.
The tax, mandated by the EPA and enforced locally, will be calculated "through satellite surveillance of your property," the statement claims.
Bongino blasts "out of touch political aristocrats in Maryland will do anything to diminish your economic liberty and starve your wallet while padding theirs."
According to the conservative organization Change Maryland, the rain tax will cost Marylanders about $300 million annually.
Wild Thing's comment..............
We need someone like McCarthy again to clean out every office from top to bottom held by a democrat.....from the president on down. Instead of the Hollywood Blacklist we now need a McCarthy Treasonous Democrat list.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (1)
Daughter Of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Charged With Money Laundering!
Daughter Of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Charged With Money Laundering!
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Jeremiah Wright’s daughter has allegedly been a naughty little money launderer, and if true, it would appear as though her chickens are coming home to roost.
Jeri Wright, 47, faces two counts of money laundering, two counts of making false statements to officers and seven counts of giving false grand jury testimony. She couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Federal prosecutors in the Illinois’ central district say Jeri Wright received about $28,000 in grant-tied paychecks in 2009, but $20,000 of that was deposited back into accounts controlled by Evans. Prosecutors also say Wright then lied to officers and a grand jury.
The charges emerge about a year after Evans was charged with fraud in relation to a $1.25 million job training grant awarded to her nonprofit, We Are Our Brothers Keeper.
Evans and her husband are accused of siphoning money from the grant to pay friends and relatives and cover the mortgage on their landmark New Regal Theater on Chicago’s South Side — a venue they said they were trying to restore to its former glory as a cultural hub for the struggling area.
Evans, also a former Chicago police lieutenant, resigned as Country Club Hills police chief in 2011. Evans, through an attorney, has said she didn’t do anything wrong.
Jeri Wright, 47, faces two counts of money laundering, two counts of making false statements to officers and seven counts of giving false grand jury testimony. She couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
An attorney for Evans confirmed Jeri Wright is the daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor emeritus of the south side Trinity United Church of Christ, which Obama attended.
Wild Thing's comment...................
So Rev. Jeremiah Wright how do you like America again??? OH that's right...." God damn America is your motto."
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM
Obama Will Become First President To Spend $4 Trillion In One Year
Obama Will Become First President To Spend $4 Trillion In One Year
In the historical tables it released along with President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal this morning, the White House Office of Management and Budget revealed that in fiscal 2016, under the president’s budget proposal, it expects Obama to become the first president in the nation’s history to preside over a federal government that spends more than $4 trillion in one year.
The OMB’s historical tables also reveal that the White House does not expect this administration to ever run an annual deficit as low as $458.5 billion, which was the deficit the government ran in fiscal 2008, the last fiscal year completed before Obama took office.
According to OMB’s tables, the federal government would spend$3.7778 trillion in fiscal 2014 under Obama’s budget proposal. It would then spend $3.9801 trillion in fiscal 2015; $4.0898 trillion in fiscal 2016; and $4.2474 trillion in fiscal 2017.
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Obama the absolute worst president in the entire history of our country. And by almost half of our country the most hated as well.....and well deserved so .Heck maybe even more then half of our country hate him, pols are not that accurate that's that;s for sure.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
IRS: We can read emails without warrant
IRS: We can read emails without warrant
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, released the information on Wednesday.
In a 2009 handbook, the IRS said the Fourth Amendment does not protect emails because Internet users "do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications." A 2010 presentation by the IRS Office of General Counsel reiterated the policy.
Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986, government officials only need a subpoena, issued without a judge's approval, to read emails that have been opened or that are more than 180 days old.
Privacy groups such as the ACLU argue that the Fourth Amendment provides greater privacy protections than the ECPA, and that officials should need a warrant to access all emails and other private messages.
Traditionally, the courts have ruled that people have limited privacy rights over information they share with third parties. Some law enforcement groups have argued that this means they only need a subpoena to compel email providers, Internet service companies and others to turn over their customers' sensitive content.
But in 2010, a federal appeals court ruled that police violated a man's constitutional rights when they read his emails without a warrant.
Despite the court decision, U.S. v. Warshak, the IRS kept its email search policy unchanged in a March 2011 update to its employee manual, according to the ACLU.
In an October 2011 memo obtained by the ACLU, an IRS attorney explained that the Warshak decision only applies in the Sixth Circuit, which covers Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
But the attorney noted that if a service provider fought the search request, it would likely result in "protracted litigation," meaning that any leads from the emails would be "stale" if the IRS ever obtained them.
The IRS did not respond to a request to comment.
The ACLU also submitted requests for documents from the FBI and the Justice Department on their policies for emails searches, but has not received responses yet.
Lawmakers in both chambers are working on legislation that would update the ECPA to require a warrant for emails and other private online messages.
At a hearing last month, Elana Tyrangiel, the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy, agreed that there is "no principled basis" for treating emails differently depending on how old they are.
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So much for the freedom our country has known BEFORE Obama and his ilk.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM
Obama Doubles Estimated Cost For Obamacare Health Exchanges To $4 Billion
Obama Doubles Estimated Cost For Obamacare Health Exchanges To $4 Billion
The state health exchanges that are central to the U.S. Affordable Care Act are costing the federal government more than twice its initial budget to complete.
The Obama administration expects to have spent $4.4 billion in fiscal 2012 and 2013 on grants to states that are building new marketplaces to sell subsidized health insurance, according to budget proposals released today for 2014. A year ago, the administration had anticipated spending about $2 billion.
Including grants the administration expects to make in 2014, costs for the state-run exchanges will reach about $5.7 billion. The budget overrun doesn’t include the extra money needed to set up a “Federally Facilitated Exchange” in 34 states that chose not to cooperate with President Barack Obama’s initiative.
“It’s a lot more complicated than anybody imagined,” Joseph Antos, a health economist at the nonprofit American Enterprise Institute who advises the Congressional Budget Office, said in a telephone interview. “To be fair to CBO, this is one of the many areas where they didn’t know how big the bread box was, much less what was in it.”
Wild Thing's comment...........
And you know what, I bet it will end up being even billions more then they are even saying now .
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 10, 2013
Michelle Obama To Campaign Against Second Amendment Rights
Michelle Obama To Campaign Against Second Amendment Rights In Chicago
Michelle Obama will take the White House’s legislative push for gun control to her hometown of Chicago Wednesday where she will address a luncheon on youth violence.
Mrs. Obama’s remarks will focus on urging Chicago business leaders to invest in opportunities for youth across Chicago’s neighborhoods.
Hosted by Mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, luncheon attendees will include members of Chicago’s leading civic organizations: The Commercial Club, the Economic Club, the Executives’ Club and World Business Chicago.
Following the luncheon, the first lady will meet with a small group of students and counselors at Harper High School on Chicago’s South side. The school has been wracked by violence in the past year with 29 current or former students having been shot – eight of them fatally.
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POS Michelle and her husband have done more campaigning, partying and spending then any other president and his wife.
They could care less about our rights.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:55 AM | Comments (2)
Mitch McConnell seeks FBI investigation to see who bugged McConnell’s campaign office
Mitch McConnell seeks FBI investigation
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign asked the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office on Tuesday to investigate how Mother Jones magazine obtained a recording of a February strategy session.
“Senator McConnell’s campaign is working with the FBI and has notified the local U.S. Attorney in Louisville, per FBI request, about these recordings,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said in a statement. “Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell’s campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal investigation.”
Added a source close to the campaign: “We’re going on the assumption that a crime has been committed. No one at the meeting leaked this.”
he McConnell campaign has not offered any direct evidence the recording was the result of an illegal bug.
The FBI office in Louisville, Ky. confirmed McConnell’s office had contacted them and that the bureau was looking into the matter.
On Tuesday morning, Mother Jones, a liberal magazine, published an audio recording of McConnell staffers discussing opposition research they could use against actress Ashley Judd, who was considering running against veteran senator in the 2014 Senate race. Judd announced last week that she would not make the race.
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We will see what happens, or will it be like all the other things the left pulls and how they get away with all they do.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:50 AM
Obama Cancels Jewish Heritage Month Reception
The White House will not hold a Jewish History Month event this year because of the sequester.
A White House official confirmed to JTA that the reception, which usually takes place toward the end of May, would not take place this year because of the congressionally mandated across-the-board budget cuts that kicked in last month.
Congress passed legislation creating Jewish American Heritage Month in 2006, and President Obama hosted the first reception commemorating the month in 2010.
Jewish invitees usually include luminaries in the arts, sports and sciences, lawmakers, armed services personnel and the Israeli ambassador, as well as organizational leaders and political supporters of the president.
White House Dossier pointed out the parties that were not cut due to the sequester:
The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day last month included an East Room bash with hundreds of guests and a separate breakfast party at the vice president’s residence.
Tuesday, the Obamas took in an exclusive viewing in the White House theater of the movie “42,” which chronicles the life of Jackie Robinson, with the film’s cast and crew. Earlier, in the day, Michelle hosted a “42 Film Workshop” for kids in the State Dining Room that featured Harrison Ford.
Obama even got in a reception for the Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings and major league soccer champs LA Galaxy on March 26. And there’s money around to transport him to the golf links, where he traveled by motorcade last weekend.
Next Tuesday, the Obamas will be treated to a command East Room performance “celebrating” Memphis soul music, with performances by stars like Justin Timberlake and Queen Latifah.
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He has no shame at all, he can't even go through the motions of doing the right thing.
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare More Complicated Than Anticipated
Sebelius: ObamaCare rollout tougher than White House expected
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday that she did not anticipate how complicated implementing the president’s signature healthcare law would be.
“The politics has been relentless and that continues,” Sebelius said, according to Reuters. “There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ‘This is the law of the land, let’s get on board, let’s make this work.’ And yet we will find ourselves having state-by-state political battles.”
Speaking to students at the Harvard School of Public Health, Sebelius said implementation had been hampered both by the law’s slow roll out and red-state governors and legislators who have rejected state-run insurance exchanges.
Wild Thing's comment....................
Get rid of it, throw it out, we don't want it.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:40 AM
April 09, 2013
Manufacturer of Colt AR-15s Relocating To Texas
Manufacturer of Colt AR-15s Relocating To Texas
Colt Competition, a manufacturer of high end Colt AR-15 rifles in Canby, Oregon, is moving its firearms production to the 2nd Amendment supporting state of Texas.
According to CBS DFW,
A firearms company that makes AR-15 style rifles for the iconic brand Colt, will open a plant in Breckenridge in Stephens County. Oregon company Bold Ideas confirmed the development Friday.
Bold Ideas goes by the name Colt Competition, making high accuracy rifles for competition shooting.
A firearms company that makes AR-15 style rifles for the iconic brand Colt, will open a plant in Breckenridge in Stephens County. Oregon company Bold Ideas confirmed the development Friday.
Bold Ideas goes by the name Colt Competition, making high accuracy rifles for competition shooting. …
The move by Colt Competition into Breckenridge comes as the CEO of Colt Manufacturing in Connecticut has said there will soon be few good answers to keep his company in the state. Connecticut passed some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws this week.
It also comes weeks after Governor Rick Perry reportedly sent letters to gun companies, encouraging them to move to Texas. Perry sent a message on Twitter to Colorado company Magpul as recently as March 21, saying “Come on Down to Texas.” The Governor’s office did not confirm Friday if it had sent a recruitment letter to Colt Competition.
This move follows on the heels of Magpul’s recent decision to pull their manufacturing of the company’s highly popular polymer gun parts and accessories out of the radical anti-gun state of Colorado. The radical anti-gun state of Connecticut is posturing to be next. In reaction to the draconian gun ban recently passed in their home state, one of the oldest manufacturer of guns, Colt, has threatened to leave. After 175 years.
Wild Thing's comment..................
Good for Colt.
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CLASSIC: Margaret Thatcher Sums up Bankrupt Socialist Ideology in Debate with Liberal Socialists – Video 1990
CLASSIC: Margaret Thatcher Sums up Bankrupt Socialist Ideology in Debate with Liberal Socialists – 1990
This is CLASSIC Margaret Thatcher. The sad news of her death happened yesterday. But her legacy as a great leader for freedom and conservative values will live on. This video shows her at the end of her time as Prime Minister going back and forth with liberals and socialists in the British Parliament. She absolutely “hits the nail on the head” about the doomed-to-fail policies of Socialism. When one liberal started talking about the “gap between the rich and the poor,” she destroyed him by pointing out that Socialism “would rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.”
She’s exactly right, and we are seeing that philosophy played out before our very eyes by the policies of Barack Obama.
Wild Thing's comment.....................
She will be missed and history will tell of her strengths and how she did so much to lead in the right way and not want socialism.
R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Bunch of BS! Trial Of Osama Bin Laden’s Son-In-Law Delayed Due To Sequester Cuts
Trial Of Osama Bin Laden’s Son-In-Law Delayed Due To Sequester Cuts
The highly anticipated New York trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law could be delayed because his court-appointed lawyers have been hit by US budget cuts, they said Monday.
Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan called the revelation that a package of US federal government cuts known as the sequester could imperil a start to the trial this year “stunning.”
Martin Cohen, an attorney for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, allegedly a senior propagandist in the Al-Qaeda network, said he doubted he could be ready by Kaplan’s suggested trial date in September.
“The lawyers for the federal defenders are to be furloughed for five-and-a-half weeks,” he told a hearing, saying it would be “very difficult to be ready for September.”
Cohen suggested a January date for the trial as an alternative.
Kaplan said it was “extremely troublesome to contemplate the possibility of a case of this nature being delayed because of sequestration.”
Abu Ghaith has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to kill US nationals.
He was brought in and out of the Manhattan court with his hands cuffed behind his back and wearing a blue prison smock. He did not speak during the hearing, but listened to proceedings through an English-to-Arabic interpreter.
Defense lawyers also queried whether the bearded former comrade of the late Bin Laden could get a fair jury trial in a courthouse just a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, where nearly 3,000 people died in the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks.
Cohen said his team was considering asking Kaplan to move the trial elsewhere because of “the prejudicial nature of the trial in New York.”
Asked later by journalists if a fair trial was possible, Cohen said: “These are questions that we’re mulling over.”
Once a trial does get underway, it could take as much as five weeks, with up to four weeks spent on the prosecution case, lawyers for both sides told the court.
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What a bunch of baloney this is. They insist on having the trial here in our country instead of at GITMO then they try pulling this.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM | Comments (2)
Black Conservatives at Hannity Townhall: ‘Liberals Believe They Own Black America’
Black Conservatives In Explosive Hannity Townhall: ‘Liberals Believe They Own Black America’
On Monday night’s Hannity show, over two dozen black conservatives participated in a townhall discussion, addressing what it is like to be a black conservative in America.
The show kicked off with Sean Hannity interviewing Dr. Ben Carson. Hannity asked Dr. Carson what kind of insults he has received since coming out publicly as a conservative. Carson noted:
Some of the words cannot be used. It’s really kind of sad. I feel more sorrowful for the people who do that, than I feel angry for them. I represent something that they just can’t quite get their heads around: ‘How can you be black and not march lock-step behind the [airquote] leaders?’ ‘How can you think for yourself?’ ‘And how can you actually have some ideals that actually make sense that don’t agree with their leaders?’ I am very hopeful that this a trend that will be broken. I’m going to continue to speak out. Of course, there is an old trick that you ostracize, you ridicule, you isolate, and you keep repeating…. I’m not sure it’s going to work quite frankly because I don’t plan on going anywhere.
In a gripping moment, when Hannity asked the townhall participants how many have been “called horrible names because of [their] conservatism,” every participant’s hand shot up.
Dr. Carson noted that this demonstrates to him that “the very people who love to talk about tolerance are some of the least tolerant people there are.”
Hannity and Dr. Carson then discussed Hannity’s recent remarks that black conservatives have no freedom of speech, with Dr. Carson agreeing and expanding on Hannity’s point:
One of the founding principles of our nation is freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet they are so many people who are afraid to talk. I’ve gotten so many emails and letters from people who say ‘I support you 100% but please let this remain anonymous.’ Why? Because they don’t want to have the fiery darts thrown at them.
Following the brief interview, Hannity opened up the discussion to the townhall participants, consisting of an array of black conservative ‘all-stars,’ such as Star Parker, David Webb, Ron Christie, Jesse Petterson, Kevin Jackson, Deneen Borelli, Crystal Wright, and Reginald Jones, among others.
The lively discussion ranged from the attacks and smears they face as a result of their political affiliation, to the reasons for their political beliefs, and the challenges they face.
The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley noted the racist comments that often emerge from the Left, as well as the “double standard” applied to black conservatives:
There’s a need on the Left to almost psycho-analyze black conservatives, put ‘em on the couch. In other words, Justice Scalia’s views on affirmative action are simply wrong but Clarence Thomas is a self-hating, self-loathing traitor to his race. There’s a double standard. And I think the reason you have that is… if you can psycho-analyze someone, de-legitimize them, you don’t have to take on their ideas… and that’s what the Left tries to do to black conservatives.
Hannity noted that each of them is a “profile in courage.”
Kevin Jackson, Executive Director of The Black Sphere, noted that Vice President Joe Biden’s comment about going into the “black sections” of his town, as an example of the level of racism on the Left that is simply dismissed or allowed.
Project 21’s Reginald Jones spoke on the threat to liberals’ “ownership” of black America, stating: “What Dr. Carson and everybody in here represents is a threat to their sense of ownership. Liberals, in total, believe that they own black America….”
Radio host David Webb added that the Left requires allies of “convenience” and victims, stating: “It’s about power and control.”
The spirited discussion was emotional at times, with Deneen Borelli wiping away tears near the end of the show.
Hannity expressed plans to hold an additional townhall on this issue, prompting cheers of agreement from the participants.
Wild Thing's comment................
I am so glad Hannity did this. The only sad thing is too many then need to see it won't.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (2)
Terrorist Weather Underground Bill Ayers Confirms Obama’s Explosive Career Started In His Living Room
When it came to the question of whether or not Obama launched his political career in the living room of domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Liar-In-Chief Obama had his minister of bullish!t, Robert Gibbs, tell the American people that it wasn’t true.
Now we learn from the terrorist himself that Obama is a lying sack of crap, and that he indeed did launch his political career from the living room of a man wanted for questioning in the death of a San Francisco police officer.
From a recent Daily Beast article:
The truth is exactly what he said and what the campaign said in 2008. David Axelrod said we were friendly, that was true; we served on a couple of boards together, that was true; he held a fundraiser in our living room, that was true; Michelle [Obama] and Bernardine were at the law firm together, that was true. Hyde Park in Chicago is a tiny neighborhood, so when he said I was “a guy around the neighborhood,” that was true. Today, I wish I knew him better and he was listening to me. Obama’s not a radical. I wish he were, but he’s not.
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You are who you associate with and it is as true as ever when it comes to Obama and his friends and associations.
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April 08, 2013
Illegal Immigration Surging While Obama Administration Claims it is Declining - Obama and his LIES!
Illegal Immigration Surging While Obama Administration Claims it is Declining
eleased statistics show that illegal immigrant infiltration along the U.S.-Mexico border is increasing markedly despite recent statements to the contrary by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano:
“I can tell you having worked that border for 20 years, it is more secure now than it has ever been. Illegal apprehensions are at 40-year lows,” Napolitano told reporters this week in Houston.
But figures released Thursday by Customs and Border Protection to Fox News tell a different story.
Arrests are actually up 13 percent compared with the same time last year. The number was 170,223 in 2012, and is 192,298 this year.
Indeed, the U.S.-Mexico border has steadily become less safe under the present administration, which, rather than securing the border to protect the lives of American citizens, is pushing an amnesty bill that will reward millions of foreign criminals:
The numbers back up anecdotal claims that Texas is seeing a marked surge in traffic. The increase comes as Congress prepares to debate immigration legislation, which in its draft form is expected to include a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants already here. Some have expressed concern this provision could entice illegal immigrants to cross over.
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If they ever told the truth they would probably die on the spot or break out in hives.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (1)
Obama's Top White House Adviser Admits Obama’s Payroll Tax Hike “Is Hurting Americans”
Top White House Adviser Admits Obama’s Payroll Tax Hike “Is Hurting Americans”
Dan Pfeiffer, one of President Obama’s senior White House advisors, explained why the payroll tax increase has weakened economic growth.
“The end of the payroll tax cut is hurting Americans because it means there’s less money in their pockets, less money to spend on small businesses, less money to spend while they are shopping,” Pfeiffer said on Fox News Sunday today. “So, that does have an impact on the economy. There’s no question about that.”
Wild Thing's comment.................
Of course it is you jerk.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
April 07, 2013
Disgusting and out of control MSNBC says Your Children do not belong to you, but to the Government
“We have to Break through our kind of Private Idea that Kids Belong to their Parents, or. . . to their Families”
If you want a glimpse of where the Left wants to take America and the family, here it is. In one of MSNBC’s bizarre Leftist promos, Melissa Harris-Perry pushes the notion that children really do not belong to their parents – they belong to “whole communities.”
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children – ‘Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility.’ We haven’t had a very collective notion that these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
It sounds like something right out of Karl Marx and the former Soviet Union – “a very collective notion”? You’ve got to be kidding? But, they are not. I want to see Democrats up for re-election in 2014 run on the platform that your children are not really yours. If we keep electing Democrats in America, this is our future. It’s as simple as that. The Democratic Party is no longer the party of Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy.
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One day if people do not start to fight back and I mean parents and all of us when the left says such outrageous things, every one of their insane ideas will happen.
Have any of you noticed how ever since Obama became president his first term the left has gone from 0 to 60 in expressing and demanding their HUGE government control over our lives and the rest of their agenda.
Instead of these talking head republicans going on one TV talk show one after the other to bash how bad they think the republican party is, they should be going on these shows and laying into the left for the outrageous things they say and want to do. !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Wild Thing at 02:55 AM | Comments (3)
Obama's California fundraising trip irks left and right
Obama's California fundraising trip irks left and right
Obama returned to Washington Thursday afternoon from a Democratic fundraising tour in San Francisco that included appearances at four high-dollar private fundraising events and garnered criticism from Washington Republicans and progressive activists alike.
Fury at the President’s Bay Area junket focused on environmental issues, Obama’s comments on the appearance of California’s attorney general, and wasteful hobnobbing with billionaires as the economy is grinding to a halt and labor force participation has plummeted to its lowest rate since 1979.
Obama kicked off his fundraising swing with two events for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in two of San Francisco’s wealthiest communities.
Obama appeared Wednesday at a $5,000-a-head cocktail reception at the $5.8 million Sea Cliff, San Francisco home of investor and environmental activist Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor, a philanthropist who serves on the board of directors of organizations including the Insight Prison Project, which runs programs inside San Quentin Prison that seek to transform the lives of “those impacted by incarceration” through “emotional literacy” programs and yoga.
“We’ve been able to reduce carbon emissions in this country … (and) address one of the biggest challenges of our time — and that is climate change,” Obama said in his remarks at the Steyer fundraiser, noting that he has made his environmental accomplishments despite an “aggressive agenda” by Republicans.
“We’ve got more work to do in terms of dealing with climate change and making sure that we’ve got an economy that is energy-efficient,” Obama added.
Obama has yet to make a decision on whether he will approve the planned Keystone XL pipeline, which Steyer, a onetime top prospect to replace Energy Secretary Steven Chu, adamantly opposes. Steyer has recently funded attack ads against Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Stephen Lynch, who supports the pipeline.
Obama later appeared alongside House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at a $32,500-per-person fundraiser at the home of billionaire Gordon Getty, the son of the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, while hundreds of anti-Keystone protesters held signs and demonstrated near the event.
“I’d guess pretty much everyone here voted for Obama,” said one anti-Keystone activist who protested the Obama fundraiser. “But he’s not representing us. He just doesn’t have the political will.”
The Republican National Committee released an ad Wednesday entitled “Billionaire Row,” which excoriated Obama for campaigning against the top one percent during the 2012 election, and appearing at billionaires’ fundraisers after his victory.
Obama spent Wednesday night at the Intercontinental San Francisco hotel, where the 2,000 square foot presidential suite has a starting rate of $3,500 per night.
Obama took off Thursday morning for Atherton, Calif., where he appeared at two more DCCC fundraisers. Air Force One landed at Menlo Circus Club, where the president was greeted by approximately 100 more anti-Keystone activists before quickly taking off in his motorcade for the fundraisers.
Obama appeared at the Atherton hills home of Medley Partners Managing Director Mark Heising, where tickets cost $32,400, and then the Atherton home of Levi-Strauss heir John Goldman, where tickets ranged from $1,00o to $20,000.
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Wild Thing's comment.................
It would be so wonderful if every time Obama does anything there would be a big reaction of disapproval at what he does and says. It would take the left being upset of course but it would be awesome to see it happen.
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90 Million Americans Are No Longer Looking for Work
90 Million Americans Are No Longer Looking for Work
In March, the number of Americans who dropped out of the labor force increased by 663,000 which adds up to a record 90 million Americans who are no longer looking for employment.
Zero Hedge has reported.......
This was the biggest monthly increase in people dropping out of the labor force since January 2012, when the BLS did its census recast of the labor numbers. And even worse, the labor force participation rate plunged from an already abysmal 63.5% to 63.3% - the lowest since 1979!But at least it helped with the now painfully grotesque propaganda that the US unemployment rate is “improving.”
In March, 312,000 women dropped out of the labor force bringing the total to 49 million.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the actual unemployment for youth under 25 may be as high as 22.9%:
Perhaps no group has been hit harder by the recession and grinding recovery than the young. The official unemployment rate for those under age 25 is 16.2%, more than double the rate for the population as a whole. In percentage terms, unemployment has fallen far more slowly for young people than for the wider population.
Those figures actually understate the severity of the problem, however. The government only considers people “unemployed” if they’re actively looking for work. People who stop looking—whether they’re retired, in school, raising a family or living on friends’ couches — are instead considered “not in the labor force,” even if they would prefer to work given the opportunity.
When the recession began in December, 2007, 59.2% of the under-25 population was in the labor force, meaning they were either working or looking for work. Today, that figure has fallen to 54.5%. That may not sound like a big drop, but it makes a huge difference. If the so-called participation rate had remained unchanged, there would be 1.8 million more young people in the labor force today than there actually are. Counting those people as unemployed, rather than out of the labor force, would push the unemployment rate up to 22.9%. That’s only a hair better than the 23.9% youth unemployment rate in the euro zone, and has shown only very modest improvement during the recovery.
The White House responded with a report stating this is all proof the economy “ is continuing to recover”.
Wild Thing's comment..................
Obama destroys the American dream and does so many things to destroy companies that have always been so good at hiring people. But no longer, people are unable to get jobs like they used to and others just plain apparently give up.Then I guess there are those too that lived on their unemployment till. it ran out and now don't even try to get a job. What a mess.
Posted by Wild Thing at 02:47 AM
April 06, 2013
Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up
Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012.
In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her.
Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department:
He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there, that they were going to be attacked, ‘please they needed more security,’ and they were ignored. And I don’t appreciate everybody going to bed and going to sleep and not taking care of the guys that they put in harm’s way, one of them being my son.
[Ms. Smith is likely referring to reports that President Obama went back to bed after learning of the attack on the compound.]
When Hannity asked how many times Sean warned the State Department or whom he warned, Smith replied:
My son himself told me that he warned them…. He said: ‘I told them, I sent messages’…. He was on the tele-type of whatever it is… he was on there telling them, just before it happened, and that the guy out there was taking pictures of the place. He was telling them that. He was a communications guy and he was communicating that.
Smith then spoke of the intimidation she has experienced, in her quest for answers, noting she is being silenced, though Hannity clarified it is not by someone in the government:
They don’t tell me much. They want me to shut up…. I was told, and I really would rather not say by who, [though] I can if you need it, but I was told that I’m causing a lot of problems and to shut up…. I told them ‘I will not! I will not shut up until I find out what really happened!’
During the ceremony when the caskets returned, Ms. Smith, who attended and sat next to Colin Powell’s wife, described her interaction at the event with President Obama and Hillary Clinton:
SMITH: The President? I cried on his shoulder. And I was crying there and he’s patting me on the back and looking around to who he’s gonna talk to next. So I didn’t feel any comfort there. Hillary? I cried on her shoulder also, but she paid a little attention to me then walked off. Panetta took my face in his hands. I asked him: “Please, please let me know what happened, I’ve got to know!” And he took my face in his hands and he says, “Trust me, trust me. I will get back to you. I will let you know.” And guess how much I’ve heard from him since?
HANNITY: Nothing.
SMITH: You got it.
Smith and Hannity discussed the importance of answers on the Benghazi attack in order to ensure this does not happen again:
SMITH: I am so disappointed in my government for the way they’re playing this. What they’re playing is politics. And I don’t want to know everything that was going on over there. I know it was secret….
HANNITY: You have a right to know the truth. And you have a right, if your son told you, as he did, he knew that there was an attack coming and he warned them and they did nothing. That means that your son’s death could’ve been prevented and we have an obligation to every single person that is serving this country that this never happen again. It should have never happened to your son or Ty Woods—
SMITH: That’s the reason I keep opening my mouth about it. I want someone to admit it so that it won’t happen again. So that there’s safety there….
Hannity noted how trying to cover this story is “very frustrating,” with Ms. Smith wryly noting: “I know, you won’t find the answer. I’m told it’s too high up.”
The silver lining? Sean Smith will be honored at an award ceremony on May 3rd but Ms. Smith was told she would have to pay her own way. As Ms. Smith’s income is limited to Social Security benefits, she could not afford to attend. Hannity balked at the idea that we justify costs for the First Family’s vacations and the White House concert series and parties, while “the mother of a slain hero from the Benghazi tragedy, which they screwed up because they didn’t listen to your son,” is not accommodated. Smith received a nice surprise – Hannity offered to pay for the all her travel expenses (hotel, round-trip airfare, meals), as well as her guest’s, so that she can attend the ceremony, encouraging Smith to order a “big expensive steak dinner on me… with lobster on the side and a big bottle of wine.” A relieved and emotional Smith happily accepted.
Wild Thing's comment..................
Obama and all that could have done something about this have blood on their hands.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:55 AM | Comments (3)
Obama fights Catholic Church subpoena on birth control
Obama fights Catholic Church subpoena on birth control
The Obama administration has gone to court to try to block a subpoena from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York seeking White House documents about the government's requirement of insurance coverage for birth control.
The subpoena requesting documents from President Barack Obama and his senior advisers would be burdensome to fulfill, the administration said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent, the suit also argues that civil subpoenas of the president's executive office are inappropriate except in extraordinary circumstances.
The lawsuit was filed on Thursday and released on a court website on Friday.
Religious organizations, individuals and corporations have filed scores of suits to block a planned mandate that employers generally include coverage of contraception in health insurance plans they offer workers.
Though the mandate has some exceptions for religious employers, the New York archdiocese, one of the largest in the United States, said it expected to incur nearly $200 million each year in penalties if it refuses to comply.
The Catholic Church teaches that artificial birth control is sinful because it violates natural law.
A judge in Brooklyn federal court allowed an archdiocese lawsuit over the mandate to move forward in December, over the administration's argument that it was premature.
A lawyer for the archdiocese declined to comment on Friday on the administration's court action.
Obama has been trying to negotiate a settlement of the highly charged dispute, which pits advocates for women's health against those who say a mandate would violate the religious freedom of employers who oppose birth control.
A version of the mandate released in February would not apply to churches and other places of worship even when they operate schools and social services.
It would apply to others, including religiously affiliated nonprofit groups. But in those cases, it calls on private insurers to cover contraceptives through separate plans for employees, not through the employer's group plan.
The mandate was part of the 2010 healthcare law championed by Obama and congressional Democrats.
The Justice Department is representing the White House in the subpoena fight. A department spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
Wild Thing's comment......................
So horrible, he and his administration have no respect for anything or anyone. It makes me furious that our taxes will be used to pay for abortions, it is bad enough we already are paying now for them with money our government gives to Planned Parenthood.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:50 AM
Obamacare rationing panels an ‘immediate danger to seniors’
Obamacare rationing panels an ‘immediate danger to seniors’....from former AMA president
March 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Concerns over the new health care law’s system for rationing health care - famously dubbed the “death panels” by Sarah Palin - have been reinforced by a former head of the American Medical Association, who said the advisory panels “will essentially mean rationed care” for the elderly.
Former AMA President Donald Palmisano wrote in a Daily Caller column Monday that the Independent Payment Advisory Boards (IPAB), tasked with keeping Medicare expenses under control, would have little oversight as they deal with the disproportionate cost burden from seniors with greater medical needs.
“The 15 officials who will make up the board will not only be empowered to make what is expected to be billions of dollars’ worth of cuts to Medicare every year, but will be required to do so when spending exceeds targeted rates,” wrote Palmisano.
“PAB’s recommended cuts will become law unless a supermajority in Congress vetoes the board’s proposal and creates its own cost-cutting proposal of equal size — an unlikely scenario even in the most harmonious of political times.”
Although the panels are expected to focus on cutting payments to the doctors themselves, Palmisano said that Medicaid providers are already being sucked dry - and warned that a more brutal form of rationing, using adjustments based on “quality of life” as already practiced in Great Britain, was likely in store.
“IPAB may eventually be allowed to resort to Great Britain’s chosen rationing methods and refuse to provide certain effective treatments to patients who need them based on costs and patients’ remaining ‘quality adjusted life years.’ Though the law currently forbids IPAB from engaging in such behavior, there is little reason to believe these rules won’t be changed — or at least stretched — down the road as costs continue to balloon and political dynamics change,” he wrote.
Palmisano warned that a group of lawmakers urging full repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), instead of piecemeal attempts, may miss the opportunity to block the most dangerous parts of the law, such as IPAB.
“If Congress misses what could be its last chance to eliminate IPAB — one of the most egregious aspects of the law — it will be doing a disservice to seniors who need good medical care now and in the near-term future,” wrote Palmisano.
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There isn't one thing good about Obamadeathcare, nothing.
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Legal Workers Line Up for Restaurant Jobs After Sheriff Joe Raids - Good for Sheriff Joe!
Jobs Americans Won't Do? "Crap", said one woman with a Masters degree willing to take the $8/hour jobs at Phoenix' Pei Wei Chinese joints after Sheriff Joe Arpaio liberated them with raids arresting dozens for identity theft crimes. What on Earth does Obama and holder not get about this? For every illegal with a job, there's an American without one. Thanks Sheriff Joe!
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God bless Sheriff Joe and Obama can burn in hell.
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April 05, 2013
Gov. Rick Perry to Texas gangs: ‘We’re going to hunt you down and we are going to punish you’ - GOOD for Perry!
Rick Perry to Texas gangs: ‘We’re going to hunt you down and we are going to punish you’
During a press conference addressing the recent shooting deaths of two Texas prosecutors, Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, was specifically asked about the suspected ties of the murders to the Aryan Brotherhood – a violent white supremacist gang.
Perry acknowledged that there was a concern, but explained that the state of Texas was investigating multiple gangs and drug cartels.
“It’s obviously open for interpretation and investigation. We will leave no stone unturned,” Perry stated. “Any organization that is operating in the state of Texas outside the bounds of our laws are going to be put on notice that we’re going to hunt you down and we are going to punish you and do our best to remove that type of threat to the safety of the citizens of the state of Texas.”
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Gov Perry is such a good man and a great Gov.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:50 AM | Comments (2)
Awesome! 15 Year-Old Young Woman takes Three-Minutes to Totally Dismantle Arguments for Maryland’s Gun Control Agenda
15 Year-Old Young Woman takes Three-Minutes to Totally Dismantle Arguments for Maryland’s Gun Control Agenda .....3/25/13
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This girl does a fantastic job.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (1)
Obama’s insulting salary stunt!
Obama’s insulting salary stunt
by Richard Cohen
The president yesterday announced that he would return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury Department. This is an effort to make common cause with federal employees who may have to take a similar paycut. This is the way this tone-deaf White House put it:
The president has decided that to share in the sacrifice being made by public servants across the federal government that are affected by the sequester, he will contribute a portion of his salary back to the Treasury.
The president makes $400,000 a year. In addition, he is provided living quarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, several limos, a very nice (Rose) garden, an (Oval) office and some very nice bedrooms, one named for a former occupant, the late President Lincoln. The president also gets a $50,000 expense account and an additional $100,000 for travel. The average government worker, I dare say, does not get quite that much for travel and might have to live in his or her own home, invariably not on Pennsylvania Avenue, necessitating a tiring and expensive commute.
But wait: This president is independently rich. He is rich by dint of his own talent and industry, but rich is rich –- and you probably ain’t. Obama has made a small fortune in book royalties, and last year the president and Michelle Obama reported an adjusted gross income of $789,674. Without having to Google it, I can say that the Obamas made more than your average federal employee –- even including overtime.
So the $20,000 Obama is kicking back to the Treasury is a pittance that will not be missed. (What’s the difference between $789,674 and $769, 674? Will the kids not go to camp? Is Hawaii out of the question for next summer? ) But 5 percent for someone making $100,000 is a different story. That’s five grand, and it well could be camp or a vacation. It is not chump change.
Obama was once poor –- although young and poor is not the same as old and poor –- so I know he can appreciate what that 5 percent can mean. The president was apparently responding to the symbolism of him living like a pasha while asking others to sacrifice. I understand. But his taking a wee haircut on his salary is just a PR stunt from the White House that’s more insulting than it is empathetic.
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Excellent article.
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Krauthammer: Obama Has Lost the Gun Control Debate – Now All He Wants Is the Money
Krauthammer: Obama Has Lost the Gun Control Debate – Now All He Wants Is the Money
Charles Krauthammer told the FOX News Allstar panel last night that Obama has lost the gun control debate. Now all Obama wants is the campaign cash.
“All he wants now is the money… He’s lost on gun control. Do you think any of this is going to make any difference? It’s not going to make a bit of difference. Knowing all that he’s out there exploiting it as an issue. He’s not going to get the solution he wanted.”
Wild Thing's comment................
One thing for sure, Obama is excels at spending.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 04, 2013
Similar To Nazi's....Harry Reid’s Gun Control Bill Allows the Beginnings of a National Gun Registry
Harry Reid’s Gun Control Bill Allows the Beginnings of a National Gun Registry
The final step of Nazi control in Austria was registration and confiscation of guns.
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) must know, Americans who own firearms have a special sensitivity to a “Big Brother” federal government that wants to keep centralized records on who owns what guns and where in America. Loose language in his gun control bill (S. 649) could start America down that slippery slope.
Since the Second Amendment guarantees to the people the right to keep and bear arms, many Americans look askance at efforts to create centralized records that might some day, in some distant future neither wanted nor expected, facilitate a despotic government’s efforts to disarm the populace or ensure that its supporters but not its opponents possess arms. Some Americans look at history and view that concern as far-fetched; others look at history and see careful attention to that concern as essential to maintaining freedom…
…In a departure from section 103(i) of Public Law 103-159, section 122(a)(4) of the Reid bill enacts a new section 922(t)(4)(B)(ii) of title 18 of the U.S. Code to direct Attorney General Eric Holder to issue regulations “requiring a record of transaction of any transfer that occurred between an unlicensed transferor and an unlicensed transferee.” The legislation does not define the term “record of transaction,” does not specify any limitations on who creates and who keeps the record of transaction, and does not explicitly incorporate the existing prohibition on a national firearms registry.
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Very concerning and very scary.
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One in four Americans suspect Barack Obama may be the antichrist
One in four Americans suspect Barack Obama may be the antichrist
bout one in four Americans suspect that President Barack Obama might be the antichrist, more than a third believe that global warming is a hoax and more than half suspect that a secretive global elite is trying to set up a New World Order, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
The survey, which was conducted by Public Policy Polling, asked a sample of American voters about a number of conspiracy theories, phrasing the questions in eye-catching language that will have the country’s educators banging their heads on their desks. The study revealed that 13% of respondents thought Obama was “the antichrist”, while another 13% were “not sure” – and so were at least appeared to be open to the possibility that he might be. Some 73% of people were able to say outright that they did not think Obama was “the antichrist”.
The survey also showed that 37% of Americans thought that global warming was a hoax, while 12% were not sure and a slim majority – 51% – agreed with the overwhelming majority view of the scientific establishment and thought that it was not. The survey also revealed that 28% of people believed in a sinister global New World Order conspiracy, aimed at ruling the whole world through authoritarian government. Another 25% were “not sure” and only a minority of American voters – 46% – thought such a conspiracy theory was not true.
This number is mostly unchanged from polling results in 2010 when 14% of Americans believed Obama could be the antichrist.
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If he isn't he is close to it.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (2)
Obama Encourages Democrats To Rush ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION....Amnesty Legislation Through Congress
Encourages Democrats To Rush Amnesty Legislation Through Congress
Obama believes that the expected bipartisan immigration reform proposal should not receive extended scrutiny by lawmakers in committee, according to his spokesman, who said that immigration debates in past year should suffice.
“[A]s veterans of the Senate know, this issue has been under consideration at very serious levels periodically for a long time now,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said during the gaggle today. “There is a great need to act on comprehensive immigration reform and a great opportunity to do it now, as the President has made clear. It has been in the past, and seems to be now, a bipartisan priority. And that is as it should be, in the President’s view.”
Carney was rejecting Rubio’s call for “regular order,” which would entail multiple hearings on the bill and provide senators with greater latitude to offer amendments to the bill.
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Hello we do have a law about immigration, how about enforcing it for a change.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
Colorado Police Officers Slam Obama For Using Cops as Stage Props (Video)
Colorado Police Officers Slam Obama For Using Cops as Stage Props
Denver police officers are upset that Barack Obama will use a police department training facility and police officers as props for his anti-gun speech today in Colorado.
Officer Danny Veith joined Megyn Kelly yesterday on American Live to discuss this shameful campaign tactic used by the president.
Some current and former Denver police officers have taken to Facebook to criticize President Barack Obama’s planned use of Denver police officers as a backdrop for a Wednesday speech on gun control.
“This is wrong and it shouldn’t be happening,” said Mike Rossi, a retired Denver police detective who left the department in 2005.
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This is one of the many things I can't stand about Obama, the way he uses people for photo ops and have them stand behind him like he does.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
ARMY POST SHOOTING: Suspect Sought After One Shot Dead at Fort Knox
ARMY POST SHOOTING:..........Suspect Sought After One Shot Dead at Fort Knox
An Army civilian employee was killed in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in a parking lot outside Fort Knox's Human Resources Command headquarters in Kentucky.
The victim, a human resources employee, was transported by ambulance to Ireland Army Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the Army said Wednesday night in a news release.
"Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating a personal incident and not a random act of violence," Command spokesman Chris Grey said.
The victim's name is being withheld until 24 hours after the family is notified, the Army said.
Police were seeking to speak with a person of interest in the case. The news release identified him as a 5-foot, 9-inch black man who is American and is believed to be using a black Yamaha motorcycle for transportation.
According to WDRB.com, civilian law enforcement sources off the post said they were asked by military police to be on the lookout for a suspect in the case.
As a security measure, the post's gates were locked down at about 5:50 p.m. About an hour later, the main gate was fully reopened, but due to enhanced security measures, those coming and going were advised to expect delays.
Fort Knox spokesman Kyle Hodges said late Wednesday that the post remained on a heightened security alert, but said officials don't believe the person of interest was still on post.
He said he could not comment on whether the victim was targeted, or whether the shooting may have been related to his work. He also couldn't say what type of weapon was used.
The FBI dispatched two agents to Fort Knox and is assisting in the investigation, said Mary Trotman, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Louisville.
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Up to now not much information.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 03, 2013
What a LIAR.... Michelle Obama White House Visitors: “This Is Your House, Too” …(Except the Doors Are Locked to Public)
Michelle Obama told a group of students today, “This is your house, too.”
The doors are locked outside.
The Weekly Standard
At a “workshop” for the film 42 in the State Dining Room of the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama told the assembled guests that “this is your house, too.”
“I want to make sure that you all know how welcome you are here in this house, because the truth is we do these things — we make sure that we do these workshops so that you all know that this is your house, too,” Obama told the guests. “So we want you to make yourselves at home. We want you to feel good and relaxed and learn and ask questions, okay?”
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I would call her a liar right to her face if I had the chance. I am so sick of Michelle and Obama and their lies.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (1)
Total Jerk Bill O’Reilly Blows Up at Laura Ingraham in “Thump the Bible” Gay Marriage Segment (Video)
Bill O’Reilly Blows Up at Laura Ingraham in “Thump the Bible” Gay Marriage Segment
Bill O’Reilly tonight responded to criticisms from the right over his commentary last week that gay marriage opponents need to do more than just “thump the Bible” if they want to win the argument. After a Talking Points Memo largely focused on mocking liberal media attempts to gin up a feud between himself and Rush Limbaugh, O’Reilly brought on Laura Ingraham, who actually told O’Reilly he was wrong in saying what he said. O’Reilly was stunned with Ingraham, shouting over her and telling her “I’m disappointed in you.”
Ingraham first surprised O’Reilly by agreeing that there actually is a feud of sorts going on between him and people like Limbaugh, given Limbaugh’s harsh condemnation of O’Reilly’s commentary. O’Reilly dismissed the idea he and Limbaugh are enemies, saying “I don’t care what he says, he can say whatever he wants.”
Ingraham agreed with O’Reilly that gay marriage opponents are not always good at making their case, but said O’Reilly unnecessarily insulted them. O’Reilly insisted he made an “honest point” about gay marriage, and shocked Ingraham by saying that opponents cannot cite the Bible in a policy argument. Ingraham told O’Reilly he was being disrespectful, which led O’Reilly to tell Ingraham he’s “disappointed” in her.
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O'Reilly is such an asshole. He was out of line the other day in what he said and he will not allow anyone to tell him how wrong he was.
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Dem Rep. Degette Mocks Senior Citizen – Says “You’d Probably Be Dead Anyway” if Confronted by Armed Criminals
Dem Rep. Degette Mocks Senior Citizen – Says “You’d Probably Be Dead Anyway” if Confronted by Armed Criminals
On Tuesday night The Denver Post editorial board hosts a public forum on gun legislation at the national level. U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette and Ed Perlmutter, State Sen. Kevin Lundberg, and Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith are among the scheduled panelists. During the question and answer period a concerned Denver citizen asked Democratic Representative DeGette how he was supposed to defend himself under the new Colorado gun laws. DeGette smirked and mocked the senior citizen saying,
“The good news for you, you live in Denver. The Denver PD would be there within minutes. (laughing) You’d probably be dead anyway.”
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Disgusting!
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM
Great job by Fox News Ed Henry: Henry challenged Carney on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s Claims
This is a great job by Fox News Ed Henry. Press Secretary Carney is not used to someone bringing up what the administration said in February vs. what they are saying today. Henry reads a direct quote from Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano contradicting the WH. Carney ends up taking a few cheap shots at Ed Henry
A testy exchange broke out today between Fox News' Ed Henry and White House press secretary Jay Carney over border patrol furloughs.
Henry challenged Carney on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s claims that America was going to be less safe due to the sequester furloughing border patrol agents.
The border agency announced yesterday that it would be postponing the furloughs.
Carney said the sequester was a "moving picture" with many agencies adjusting differently to the budget cuts
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Love how Ed Henry did this.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM
Food Stamp Fraud Balloons To $750 Million Each Year
Food Stamp Fraud Balloons To $750 Million Each Year.....Cost of Food Stamp Fraud More Than Doubles In Three Years
In 2012, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said that food stamp fraud totals $750 million each year – a number that more than doubles the cost of trafficking reported in a 2006- 2008 USDA study.
Kevin Concannon, U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services, told the Huffington Post last year that food stamp fraud totals around $750 million each year.
The $750 million number is more than double the amount in total dollars of fraud detected annually in a 2006-2008 study on trafficking – a type of fraud that involves selling Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to food retailers for cents on the dollar.
“This is $750 million that isn’t being used to provide food to individuals and families and that issue isn’t lost on us. We want to maintain the confidence of American taxpayers because everyone is challenged in this economy – the payers as well as the folks who are benefiting from the program,” Concannon said.
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Democrats could care less about fraud, any kind of fraud.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
April 02, 2013
Connecticut lawmakers agree on tough gun control bill
Connecticut lawmakers agree on tough gun control bill
Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after the December mass shooting in the state, including a ban on new high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the massacre that left 20 children and six educators dead.
The proposal also called for background checks for private gun sales and a new registry for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets, something of a compromise for parents of Newtown victims who had wanted an outright ban on them, while legislators had proposed grandfathering them into the law.
The package also creates what lawmakers said is the nation’s first statewide dangerous weapon offender registry, immediate universal background checks for all firearms sales and expansion of Connecticut’s assault weapons ban.
“How will they register a magazine? It seems a little weird,” he said.
A new state-issued eligibility certificate would also be needed to purchase any rifle, shotgun or ammunition under the legislation. To get the certificate, a buyer would need to be fingerprinted, take a firearms training course and undergo a national criminal background check and involuntary commitment or voluntary admission check.
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And any new gun laws will not change one thing, bad people killing innocent people. Only gun owners that are good people will be pressured to obey any new laws....this is all beyond stupid and...........against the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:55 AM | Comments (2)
BENGHAZI 9.11 Terrorist Attack & The Obama and Hillarry Cover-Up, The Movie
A Documentary About the Benghazi Terrorist Attack & The Cover-Up that Followed
Featuring Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Experts from the Heritage Foundation, Media Research Center, Weekly Standard, and Daily Caller, and Former USS Cole Commander Kirk Lippold
TAMPA BAY, Fla., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambassador Chris Stephens, Glen Doherty , Tyrone Woods , and Sean Smith volunteered to serve America in a dangerous place and were undoubtedly willing to accept the risks associated with their service. However, they probably assumed the United States government would come to their aid if and when it was needed. Sadly, when they came under attack on 9/11/12, a decision was made to leave them stranded. The result: four dead American patriots murdered by terrorists.
BENGHAZI 9.11 will take viewers on a journey to explore the issues surrounding this sad day in American history. BENGHAZI 9.11 will summarize the information that has been slowly released over a period of months and examine whether a cover-up is taking place. The film will also explore the impact this event has had on Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , and the mainstream media. It's certain that this movie will add fire to the fierce debate about Benghazi, serving as an alternative, factual analysis, about a topic that has mostly been ignored by the mainstream media.
BENGHAZI 9.11 is still in production. Anticipated release is Fall 2013.
For more information about BENGHAZI 9.11, please visit Benghazi9-11.com or Facebook.com/Benghazi911 to view the movie trailer.
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Obama should be punished for the deaths, he once again will get off and not ever be punished for any of the deaths he is responsible for.
Posted by Wild Thing at 01:50 AM | Comments (1)
Stockton, Calif. enters bankruptcy, largest municipality to go bust
Judge allows California city to enter bankruptcy, largest municipality to go bust
Stockton, Calif., became the most populous city in the nation to go broke Monday, after a judge accepted the city's application to enter bankruptcy.
In the closely watched decision, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said the bankruptcy declaration was needed to allow the city to continue to provide basic services. He determined Stockton would not be able to perform "its obligations to its citizens on fundamental public safety as well as other basic government services without" the protections provided under bankruptcy proceedings.
Stockton was facing a $26 million shortfall when it filed for bankruptcy last summer, the result of the housing bust and soaring pension obligations. After cutting a quarter of their police force and other city services to the bone, officials argued bankruptcy was their only option.
The city of nearly 300,000 people has become emblematic of government excess and the financial calamity that resulted when the housing bubble burst.
Its salaries, benefits and borrowing were based on anticipated long-term developer fees and increasing property tax revenue. But those were lost in a flurry of foreclosures beginning in the mid-2000s and a 70 percent decline in the city's tax base.
The city's creditors wanted to keep Stockton out of bankruptcy -- a status that would likely allow the city to avoid repaying its debts in full.
They argued the city had not cut spending enough or sought a tax increase that would have allowed it to avoid bankruptcy.
Matthew Walsh, an attorney for the bond holders, declined to comment after Monday's ruling.
Attorneys for the city said the city's budget and services had been cut to the bone.
"There's nothing to celebrate about bankruptcy," said Bob Deis, Stockton's city manager. "But it is a vindication of what we've been saying for nine months."
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Too much spending and still they will not admit it.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM | Comments (1)
April 01, 2013
Racist Obama Hears His Racist Pastor At Easter Service Push Race Card.... More Lies from the racist left
Pastor at Obama’s Easter Church Service: ‘Captains of the Religious Right’ Want Blacks ‘in the Back of the Bus,’ Women ‘Back in the Kitchen’
The pastor at the Washington, D.C. church where the Obama family celebrated Easter on Sunday said members of the religious right want blacks “in the back of the bus,” women “back in the kitchen” and immigrants “back on their side of the border.”
“It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back…for blacks to be back in the back of the bus…for women to be back in the kitchen…for immigrants to be back on their side of the border,” Rev. Dr. Luis Leon said in his sermon, according to the White House press pool report.
Reuters reporter Jeff Mason tweeted that Leon also said the religious right wants gays in the closet.
The president, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church, located across the street from the White House.
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Total idiots all of them, the only problem is the other idiots that believe this crap.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (3)
Monster Obama Trying To “Nationalize” Elections By Executive Order..??!!
Barack Obama signed an Executive Order Thursday establishing a Presidential Commission to deal with “election administration” that critics say is an attempt to nationalize the country’s elections for partisan advantage.
The Executive Order states the Commission “shall identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to promote the efficient administration of elections in order to ensure that all eligible voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots without undue delay.”
The Commission will focus on polling places, how better to train and recruit poll workers, managing voter rolls and poll books, voting machines, ballot simplicity, English proficiency, and absentee ballots. The states–not the federal government–traditionally have responsibility over such matters.
Obama will appoint no more than nine members to the Commission and appointees will be drawn from among individuals with “knowledge about or experience in the administration of State or local elections, as well as representatives of successful customer service-oriented businesses, and any other individuals with knowledge or experience determined by the President to be of value to the Commission.”
On his radio show on Thursday, Mark Levin said Obama was using "falsehoods" about long lines to "nationalize" elections in a power grab that will "further weaken our voting system" at the state level.
Levin said he may be okay with nationalizing elections to prevent voter fraud by instituting Voter ID laws but reiterated that the federal government has no control over voting.
The talk radio host attacked progressive news outlets for claiming Obama had to create this commission because of long lines in 2012's election based on anecdotal evidence. Levin noted there have been studies to the contrary.
"Some of the anti-federalists who opposed the Constitution were very, very concerned that the federal government would interfere with state election laws. And they felt if the federal government did that, the federal, central government would have control over the election process and use it to its benefit," he said.
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Voter fraud from the left and now this...........sickening and dangerous.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM
US Sends F-22 Jets to South Korea
US Sends F-22 Jets to South Korea
The United States has sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea to join Seoul forces in military drills as North Korea warns the Korean Peninsula has entered "a state of war."
A senior U.S. official confirms to Fox News that the F-22 Raptors were deployed to Osan Air Base in South Korea from Japan on Sunday to support ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills.
North Korea has increased its threatening rhetoric in recent weeks, including vowing to launch a nuclear strike on Washington. In a statement released Sunday, U.S. military in South Korea urged North Korea to restrain itself.
"(North Korea) will achieve nothing by threats or provocations, which will only further isolate North Korea and undermine international efforts to ensure peace and stability in Northeast Asia," the statement said.
Meanwhile, North Korea said Saturday its armed forces, "will blow up U.S. bases for aggression in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam."
The country's young leader, Kim Jong Un, also threatened to shut down a border factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, according to the Associated Press.
The threats are seen as part of an effort to provoke the new government in Seoul to change its policies toward Pyongyang and to win diplomatic talks with Washington in order to gain more aid.
The White House says the U.S. is taking North Korea's threats seriously, but has also noted Pyongyang's history of "bellicose rhetoric."
On Thursday, U.S. military officials revealed that two B-2 stealth bombers dropped dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island as part of annual defense drills that Pyongyang sees as rehearsals for invasion. Hours later, Kim ordered his generals to put rockets on standby and threatened to strike American targets if provoked.
Military analysts have said a full-scale conflict between North and South Korea is extremely unlikely, noting that the Korean Peninsula has remained in a technical state of war for 60 years. But the North's continued threats toward South Korea and the United States have raised worries that a misjudgment between the sides could lead to a clash.
In addition to the military exercise, the U.S. will fortify its defenses against a potential North Korean missile attack by adding more than a dozen missile interceptors to the 26 already in place at Fort Greely, Alaska, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has also announced.
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North Korea has their ‘lunatic, half-wit-in-charge’ and we have...Obama, not much difference.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:40 AM
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” - VP Dick Cheney
A toast to each of you 
