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Sunday, August 25, 2013

A Most Dangerous Lie

Last week President Barack Obama asserted that the United States does not face spending or deficit problems, only an ideological divide caused by Republicans that want to slash government programs for health and children's services.

“We don’t have an urgent deficit crisis,” Obama said Friday at a town hall meeting on the campus of Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y. “The only crisis we have is the one that is manufactured in Washington and it’s ideological and the basic notion is that we shouldn’t be helping people get health care and we shouldn’t be helping kids who can’t help themselves and whose parents are under resourced, we shouldn’t be helping them get a leg up.”

Now either this president is lying or he has yet to read his own government's reports.

• The Government Accountability Office said earlier this year that "...absent policy changes...the federal government continues to face an unsustainable fiscal path."

• The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office warns that we have less than a decade to rectify the federal spending addiciton: "[a] growing imbalance between revenues and noninterest spending, combined with the spiraling cost of net interest, would swiftly push debt upward in an unsustainable way... The explosive path of federal debt ... underscores the need for major changes in current policies to put the nation on a sustainable fiscal course..."

• The public trustees of Medicare and Social Security continue to sound the alarm that the massive entitlement programs are headed for collapse: "Under current law, both of these vitally important programs are on unsustainable paths."

• Furthermore, government economists in the several states warn that the federal debt "circumstances are dire enough after four consecutive years of trillion-dollar deficits that politicians on each side of the aisle are beginning to realize serious budget repairs are necessary."

Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker, one of the most respected investment analysts in America, reports that the United States federal government "is on a parallel course to GM before its bankruptcy... [and if entitlement programs are not reformed, the U.S. balance sheet will go from bad to worse... The turning point: within 15 years, entitlements plus net interest expenses will absorb all -- yes, all -- of [federal] annual revenue."

This is just a random sampling. There are many, many more. There are hundreds of similar analyses from the government itself as well as the private sector.

Are the federal government's own actuaries all wrong and Obama right?

Are the federal government's own accountants all wrong and Obama right?

Are generally accepted accounting principles all wrong and Obama right?

Are centuries of mathematics all wrong and Obama right?

Are facts, logic, history and reason all wrong and Obama right?

Whether his actions are, as some have proposed, intentional or whether they are the product of a radical and blinkered ideology, the endgame will be the same.

We are headed rapidly for an economic whirlpool, a hydraulic that will -- like chaotic events that have occurred before throughout history -- catch most off-guard and send the country rapidly into desperately dangerous, uncharted waters.

And which segments of the population will be hardest hit by such an economic catastrophe? Will it be the super-rich, the Beltway elites, or former Presidents of the U.S.? Or will it be the poor, seniors living on fixed incomes, and young people trying to get their careers started?

Of all his countless fabrications, the lies the President tells the American people about spending and deficits are the most dangerous.


Hat tips: Mark Levin and BadBlue News Service.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 BENGHAZI TERROR ATTACK NEARS: It is Time to Demand Answers

Guest post by Watchdog Wire


BENGHAZI: Who are the players? WHITE HOUSE LIST, THE THREE AMIGOS, OTHERS ON THE HILL, MEDIA

On September 11, 2013 it will have been one year since the tragic attack on the US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, Libya. The attack claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stephens and three other American citizens – marking the first time an Ambassador has been killed in action since the Carter Administration. It seems unbelievable that, almost 365 days later, American citizens are still waiting for information, answers, and justice. Only four people were ever disciplined for their actions surrounding the attack and not a single person lost their job. And Secretary of State John Kerry recently returned all four officials to work, without subjecting them to hearings regarding their role in the attack. Apparently, answers on Benghazi aren’t at the top of Kerry’s “to-do” list.

Will anyone be held accountable for this giant security failure? Have we learned anything from the ongoing investigation of the attack? The families of the victims deserve answers and American citizens deserve an explanation.

TAKE ACTION

This September, join us in telling the Obama Administration that we haven’t forgotten. Contact the major players in the Benghazi incident and tell them we’re still watching and waiting for the TRUTH. Demand an update in the ongoing investigation!

WHEN A PICTURE IS WORTH A BILLION WORDS: The Unvanished Idiocy of the Anti-Fracking Crowd

Spotted over at Anthony Watts's jaint.

There’s been a lot of hullabaloo in the UK over the Balcombe fracking protests. WUWT reader Eric Worrall writes in with this comparison photo...


...Here is a tagged version of the same picture of all the plastic high tech synthetics used by anti fracking protestors in England, captured in a single photograph...


It really makes you wonder – do anti-fracking protestors think nylon tents, PVC groundsheets, and plastics grow on trees? No doubt the tents also contain high tech synthetic fibre sleeping bags, and gas powered camp cookers.

Do these hypocrites actually think about what sort of world they would have to endure, without the cheap hydrocarbons, and cheap plastic synthetics, the petroleum source of which they oppose?

And these are the same kooks that tell us humans are causing "global warming" (or is it "climate change" now, I forget) even though the Earth is cooling?

These people are such simpletons I'm amazed they remember to breathe on their own.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

And now, a word from our sponsors in Egypt...

At least 37 churches have been torched and dozens of Christians killed as the Muslim Brotherhood exacts revenge for its well-deserved ejection from Egypt's halls of power.

And, through it all, Barack Obama has remained utterly silent. The same man who couldn't stop slamming President Mubarak during a series of relatively mild protests in Tahrir Square has suddenly gone mum.


Where is the president? Where is the man who didn't hesitate to fly to Vegas during a terror attack in Benghazi to decry Republican "obstructionism"?

Where is the man who gives a speech between every golf game?

Hear that sound? Those are crickets.

Oh. And that's a bindle of tumbleweed that just rolled by.


Hat tips: BadBlue News and Marty O Radio Show.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Obama silent as Egyptian Christians suffer a Kristallnacht at the hands of his Muslim Brotherhood allies

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Mideast: Christians in Egypt are again the target of Islamist Muslim Brotherhood supporters using the new violence as a cover for ongoing persecution. If Christians were burning mosques, the world would be outraged.

Amid the raging violence in Egypt, a less-publicized war is being waged against Egypt's long-persecuted Coptic Christians, this time using the excuse that they were somehow involved in the military's ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi from power.

Coptic Christians comprise up to 10% of Egypt's 84 million people.

Ishaq Ibrahim from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights group has documented as many as 39 incidents of violence against churches, monasteries, Coptic schools and shops in different parts of the country within the past few days. They include Thursday's torching of the Prince Tadros Church in the province of Fayoum, where three similar attacks occurred on other churches the day before.

Islamists firebombed the Mar Gergiss Church in Sohag, a city with a large community of Coptic Christians, burning it to the ground. Islamists previously raised an al-Qaida flag over the church.

Another two places of worship, the Churches of Abraham and the Virgin Mary, were attacked in El-Menia province, leaving them partially damaged by fire. St. Theresa Church in Assiut in Upper Egypt was also burned.

It was on May 8, 2011, when Islamists stormed and set ablaze that same Virgin Mary Church in Cairo, shouting: "With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam." At that time they also burned down nearby homes occupied by Coptic families, killing a dozen people and wounding more than 200.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Obama's Dog Gets More Air Support Than the Heroes at Benghazi

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily


Leadership: We may not know who gave the stand-down order, but we do know the First Family has a second Portuguese Water Dog. Will it too be airlifted on a Marine aircraft to Martha's Vineyard?

The breaking news on Monday was not a new revelation about the National Security Agency, the IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, or the pending collapse of ObamaCare.

It was that President Obama and his family have adopted a companion for first dog Bo. The new presidential pet is called Sunny, a name obviously not picked because it reflects the future of America under this administration.

"We suspect Sunny will follow in Bo's footsteps and keep the president company in the Oval Office, go for walks with the first family after their 6:30 family dinner and even jump up on the first lady's lap from time to time," a White House spokesman announced to a world still waiting to find out what the president was doing the night of the Sept. 11 Benghazi terrorist attack other than play cards with presidential "body man" Reggie Love.

If Sunny does follow in Bo's footsteps, he'll soon be privately airlifted, as was Bo, to Martha's Vineyard aboard a Marine MV-22 Osprey, a helicopter that operates at a cost of $11,000 per hour. Bo was given a ride on one of two MV-22s that took various personnel on the trip with the Obamas and arrived ahead of them.

When the administration guts the defense budget to the point where training and military readiness are suffering, why are scarce military aircraft being used at all on a presidential vacation and why is the presidential dog being ferried on one?

Monday, August 19, 2013

There, fixed it for you, @GeeOhPees2

Some Demobat on Twitter published this hilarious pile of crap:


And I promptly repaired it for him, her, whatever:


Like all of the other collectivist schmucks, they can't point to their blueprint. They have no blueprint, no final design they can show us. They simply seek to have a few masterminds in some authoritarian, centralized government issue edicts. They lust to control people, to tell them what kind of cars they can drive, what kind of health care they can buy, what kind of light bulbs they can have in their homes, how much energy they can consume, and virtually every other aspect of their lives.

They don't believe in individual liberty. They don't believe in private property rights. They don't believe in free markets.

And, most of all, they don't believe in the Constitution. They despise the nation's highest law -- the foundation of the greatest country ever seen on the face of the Earth. They seek to eradicate the Constitution and replace it with a few master-planners who must use coercion to control every action of the citizen.

The very notion of God-given rights is anathema to kooks like this. The government grants rights, don't ya know? Like a "right" to health care, never mind if all of the doctors quit. They'll force doctors to treat you!

These Statists have no model they can point to that has ever succeeded in all of human history. For there is no such model. Their path is the road to misery and despotism. And we will resist them.


Sunday, August 18, 2013

Marines preparing for IEDs carrying WMD payloads

Egypt, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Iran: since the ascent of Barack Obama to the presidency, a series of baffling and bizarre decisions (and non-decisions) on the part of the administration have left the Mideast awash in violence and misery.

Which explains the U.S. Marines preparing for WMDs in improvised explosive devices (IEDs):

The Marine Corps’ explosives experts are enhancing their training to prepare for expected future encounters with improvised bombs carrying chemical, biological or radiological agents — so-called weapons of mass destruction...

To date, such improvised explosives have not been a credible threat on the battlefield, especially in improvised explosive devices. In Iraq, a few failed attempts were made using industrial chemicals, but the Marine Corps considers improvised WMDs a threat that’s likely, according to a contract solicitation from the service seeking assistance in developing this new training.

Marines with 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company at Camp Pendleton will attend the new Weapons of Mass Destruction Design and Defeat Course in October. The goal is to improve EOD techs’ chances for survival should they encounter improvised WMD, and help deployed forces adapt to the threat.

It is a matter of time before improvised WMD are used against U.S. forces, says Steven Bucci, ... a retired Army Special Forces officer, said attempts in Iraq demonstrated the enemy’s willingness to use them. All they lack are the materials, and failing states like Syria, which possess weaponized chemical agents, could provide them.

Improvised WMD would most likely incorporate chemical agents, Bucci said. While they are difficult to manufacture and weaponize, much of the work is done if enemy forces obtain chemical weapons from an unsecured national stockpile — artillery shells, for example.

“The bad guys know how to detonate artillery shells as IEDs,” Bucci said. “They did that in Iraq and Afghanistan. If they are chemical weapon shells or warheads, then you have a potential problem. So while that has not been a particular threat in the past — other than these lame attempts in Iraq — if they can get some of these things out of Syria, the possibility of creating chemical IEDs goes way up..."

Which reminds me: Hillary Clinton is the greatest Secretary of State ever.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.

Democrat Party Unveils Subtle Redesign of Logo

"As Detroit goes, so goes the nation under Democrats."


The stock and gold markets may be sniffing the stink of rotting debt in the U.S.

Australian financial writer Greg Canavan reports that foreign investors are spurning U.S. debt instruments.

We are headed for a reckoning and, despite all of the warnings, no one in Washington appears the least bit interested in stopping the train before it goes off the cliff.


Saturday, August 17, 2013

As Egypt Burns, President Obama Cycles Into Action

Okay, you got me: the President isn't doing anything about Egypt, other than asking his State Department to support the Muslim Brotherhood. Here's the President taking quick action after word that hundreds have been slaughtered in Egypt:


Oh. And besides those decisive actions, the President met with writer/actor Larry David. On the golf course. For the 140th time.


Reminder: "John Kerry: Don’t ‘Prejudge’ The Muslim Brotherhood"

Friday, August 16, 2013

Female Member of Israeli Parliament Obliterates John Kerry: You will "cause the whole region to spin out of control"

Now, this is speaking truth to power:

In letter publicized to the press, Shaked attacks US pressure to release terrorists: "You are putting me and my children's lives at risk"

Bayit Yehudi MK Ayelet Shaked has released a scathing open letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry, for pushing the Israeli government to release convicted terrorist murderers...

"In light of the current situation that you have brought about, I feel that I cannot be bound by the restraints of 'politically correct' wording, and I therefore will allow myself to convey my following message to you in the most straightforward fashion... By forcing Israel to capitulate to terrorism by releasing murdering terrorists with so much blood on their hands that the US would never dream of releasing if it was their own citizens murdered – you are not only being extremely hypocritical, but are actually dabbling in experimentation and gambling, by putting me and my children's lives at risk..."

..."Mr. Secretary: the price of releasing over a hundred convicted murderers will be borne by my family and my people, not by you." she continued, asking "How will you carry the burden of the terrible price toward which you are leading us?"

"You forced us into peace talks during a period of time that the entire Middle East is in chaos, without realizing that by doing so, you have foolishly put us in an impossible situation in which we cannot and will not make any concessions."

By "raising expectations to a dangerous level" in this way, Kerry is threatening "to cause the whole region to spin out of control," she claimed... Shaked ended the letter with a word of "advice" for the US Secretary of State.

"The past four years in Israel have been as quiet and peaceful as ever. Therefore I suggest you perform your job in a much more effective and relevant fashion by focusing your attention on Syria and Egypt, where people are actually being slaughtered."

Oh, damn.

Which reminds me: Hillary Clinton is the greatest Secretary of State ever.


Hat tip: BB.

Phony Scandal Curiously Reveals Real Dead Bodies and Real Guns

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Media Bias: Rodeo clowns constitute a real crisis in media eyes, while deaths from the administration's gun-running operation to Mexican drug cartels are ignored as three more guns show up at crime scenes in Mexico.

The media have had a field day with a single, supposedly racist rodeo clown. But somehow, with few exceptions, mainstream media ignore the far-more-dangerous clowns in the Obama administration — those whose incompetence in the Fast and Furious scandal has led to human tragedy and deaths.

One exception is the relentless Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, who reported Wednesday that three more weapons from Fast and Furious, the administration gift that keeps on killing, have turned up at violent crime scenes in Mexico. CBS News reported all three guns are WASR-10 762-caliber Romanian rifles.

Two were purchased by Fast and Furious suspect Uriel Patino in May and July of 2010. Sean Steward, who was convicted on gun charges in July 2012, purchased a third. The rifles have been traced to the Lone Wolf gun shop in Glendale, Ariz.

Details of exactly where the guns were found and what the crimes were aren't known at this point. And the Department of Justice, under Attorney General Eric Holder, is not about to divulge that information or any information about the recovery of Fast and Furious weapons at crime scenes.

A month ago, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Holder asking why the Department of Justice was covering up deaths and weapons linked to Operation Fast and Furious. The inquiry came shortly after a Mexican police chief and his bodyguard were killed by cartel members using Fast and Furious guns.

Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. A bodyguard also was killed. A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was also traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Co.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

China aggressively testing advanced nukes that can hit mainland U.S. as Obama slashes missile defense

Guest post by Investors Business Daily


Defense: Beijing tests a mobile missile capable of hitting the continental U.S. and prepares to deploy ballistic missile submarines that can do the same, while our commander-in-chief slashes our missile defenses.

In a speech before the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Rep. Mike Rogers, R.-Ala., chairman of the House armed services subcommittee on strategic forces, warned that the Obama administration has cut $6 billion from U.S. missile defense programs at a time of growing missile threats from potential adversaries.

According to Rogers, Obama cut $1.16 billion from missile defense — a 10% reduction — in his first budget as president and has continued the reductions. "Over four fiscal years, this underfunding adds up to almost $6 billion less than President Bush planned for missile defense; this represents a 16% reduction," Rogers said.

Thanks largely to President George W. Bush and his push to fulfill President Ronald Reagan's dream, the continental U.S. and overseas allies are protected against missile attack by 30 deployed long-range Ground Based Interceptors (GBI), 32 ships armed with more than 100 SM-3 IA interceptors, and two dozen advanced SM-3 IB interceptors, dozens of Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors, and eight X-band missile defense radars deployed abroad.

However, a GBI test on July 5, the first such test in five years, failed. Our missile defense capabilities, which President Obama told the Russians he would have more "flexibility" to scuttle after his re-election, have been allowed to atrophy and deteriorate.

To placate Moscow, President Obama betrayed our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic by abandoning plans to deploy GBIs and missile defense radar there.

Other programs canceled by the Obama administration include a missile defense space sensor system; a next-generation Aegis missile, which was to replace the abandoned European GBIs; the Airborne Laser, an airborne sensor system; and a next-generation missile defense interceptor kill vehicle.

Friday, August 09, 2013

CONFIRMED: John Boehner holding secret meetings with Chuck Schumer to slip Amnesty for Illegals past the GOP base

Awesome: Your Republican "leaders" are conspiring with one of the most malevolent and nefarious Statists ever to set foot in the Capitol Building to create a permanent Democrat majority. We know this because of an inadvertent slip by that very same Statist -- a lifetime politician who has never held a real job in his life -- and a man who can't seem to resist a reporter's microphone.

The most dangerous place in Washington: standing between Chuck Schumer and a camera.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made his clearest indication yet that he would be fine with a piecemeal approach to immigration reform preferred by the Republican-led House.

Schumer, the leader of the Gang of Eight whose comprehensive immigration reform legislation passed the Senate in June, said even if the House passes separate bills, those measures could eventually be bundled in a House-Senate conference committee...

Schumer let slip that he is "having discussions" with House Republicans to get this deal done.

In other words, John Boehner and/or his committee chairs are secretly conspiring with Schumer and other Senate leftists to pass a series of "Security First" immigration bills to fool Americans into believing they're serious about border security.

Spoiler: they're not.

So Boehner and Schumer are hoping to get the package of bills into a conference committee, after which the full-blown Democrat Amnesty bill will emerge.

• It will be rushed to the floor of the House and Senate.

• It will consist of more than 1,000 pages of carve-outs, legal exceptions, payoffs to separatist groups like La Raza, bribes, wealth redistribution and corporate reach-arounds.

• Your elected representatives and the American people will have virtually no time to read the bill or understand it; they will be instructed to vote for it, or else.

“We would much prefer a big comprehensive bill, but any way that the House can get there is OK by us,” Schumer told CNN Wednesday. “I actually am optimistic that we will get this done.”

...Schumer also noted on CNN that a few of the House bills — such as one on agriculture workers and another on high-skilled immigrants — are “very similar” to components in the Gang of Eight bill.

Suffice it to say that Boehner and his apparatchiks, Paul Ryan among them, are conspiring against their base, their children, the American citizenry, and fiscal prudence.

Why am I certain Ryan is complicit with Schumer?

As a very visible spokesman for the corporatists' Amnesty campaign, I believe the odds that Ryan is scheming along with Schumer are slightly higher than the likelihood Lindsay Lohan will fall off the wagon.

By putting their own petty interests and personal power over principle, Boehner and Ryan appear ready to have the Republican Party commit political suicide.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Thursday, August 08, 2013

America’s UberGovernment. And the rest of us.

Guest post by Claire Wolfe

The last few days I’ve been doing physical labor, spending time in the sunshine, painting rooms — and thinking about America’s UberGovernment.

It’s dawning on a lot more people that a government run by secret spymasters is illegitimate even by the most conventional, mainstream standards. Among freedomistas, even those like the folks at DownsizeDC — who are usually pretty polite, mainstream, and hopeful of working within the system — are talking last straws.

Edward Snowden’s revelations of the NSA were a shock, though not a surprise. Now this week they’re followed by news of DEA operations that are top secret — but obviously, no doubt about it, are the result of collusion between the DEA and the NSA (“We’re only spying on you so we can keep you safe from brown-skinned furriners with scary religions, really!”). And these operations are resulting in arrest, asset forfeiture, and sometimes decades in prison for Americans.

And in another non-surprise, old-news revelation, Glenn Greenwald is now reporting that members of Congress — you know, those experts who were so diligently overseeing all those secret spy programs, bravely protecting our interests and Our Glorious Constituion — can’t even get information on the NSA or its bosom pal the FISA court no matter how much they rant or beg.

So yes. You’d have to be naive in the extreme to believe that a huge, secret level of government that answers to no one is a legitimate democratic-or-republican government. This country is now governed by an UberGoverment — Secrecy uber Alles.

Control uber Alles.

It’s also nothing new that Congress long ago lost authority over most of the unaccountable bureaucratic creatures it created, from the IRS to farm subsidy programs to ObamaPhones for the poor. The only thing that’s changed is that now Congress has lost power to a gigantic “security” apparatus that suspects and investigates everyone, makes war from the air on individuals (it still boggles my mind that more people aren’t boggled that drone warfare is conducted by the CIA and not the Pentagon), has U.S. citizens arrested and assassinated, and is accountable to absolutely no “of the people” authority whatsoever.

You know what this is. I know what this is.

Wednesday, August 07, 2013

THE REAL BENGHAZI SCANDAL: Obama consigliere Valerie Jarrett reportedly ordered military to stand down

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily


Scandal: The omnipresent power behind the throne some have called the president's Rasputin had the power to call off three strikes against Osama bin Laden. She may have used that power again the night four Americans died in Benghazi.

The Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came while America failed to mount a rescue mission despite sufficient time and assets. Included in that disaster were the unaccounted whereabouts of President Obama during eight critical hours, the lack of Situation Room photos, the failure by the president to follow up with subordinates before his trip to Las Vegas and the fabricated story that the whole thing was prompted by an Internet video.

Columnist Charles Krauthammer said recently on "The O'Reilly Factor" that the "biggest scandal of all" regarding that Benghazi slaughter has yet to emerge.

"I think there is a bigger story here ... that will in time come out," Krauthammer said. "The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is: What was the president doing in those eight hours?"

The columnist noted: "He had a routine meeting at 5 o'clock. He never after, during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, he never called the secretary of defense, he never calls the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never calls the CIA director."

One of the people Obama always talks to is Valerie Jarrett. She emerged from the same Chicago cauldron of radicalism where Obama got his ideological baptism.

Obama's Freudian Slip on the Leno Show?

The Looking Spoon:


I'm sure that it was just an innocent mistake, what with all of the jet-lag and vacations. Which also explains "57 states", "Navy Corpse-Man", "Intercontinental Railroad", "I mean, at a certain point you've made enough money" and the zillions of other malapropisms, gaffes and screw-ups by the Smartest Presidente Evah™.


President Obama Orders 22 U.S. Embassies Closed Over Fears of Widespread Workplace Violence

Al Qaeda, as the theme song of the Democrat National Convention goes, is on the run.

Indeed, worldwide terrorist groups are quite literally on the run, including a recent and explosive entry in the Boston Marathon. All over the world, radical Jihadists have grown sufficiently emboldened to convene a global conference call, patching in at least 20 terror leaders for what must have been a jolly recounting of the Obama administration's policy of weakness, appeasement and preemptive surrender.

The crucial intercept that prompted the U.S. government to close embassies in 22 countries was a conference call between al Qaeda’s senior leaders and representatives of several of the group’s affiliates throughout the region...

...included [on the call were] the leaders or representatives of the top leadership of al Qaeda and its affiliates calling in from different locations, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence. All told, said one U.S. intelligence official, more than 20 al Qaeda operatives were on the call...

...Al Qaeda members included representatives or leaders from [Yemen,] Nigeria’s Boko Haram, the Pakistani Taliban, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and more obscure al Qaeda affiliates such as the Uzbekistan branch. Also on the call were representatives of aspiring al Qaeda affiliates such as al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula...

Let me put this in terms even a Democrat can understand: the Obama administration's policies of willful blindness and Jihadi appeasement have resulted in a global, de facto surrender to radical Islam.

Obama's failures are represented perfectly in the case of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan. This piece of pig excrement is on trial in Killeen, Texas this week on charges of "workplace violence" after he killed or wounded 43 individuals at a Texas Army base.

[Hasan] said he was as a soldier who switched sides in what he described as a war between America and his Islamic faith. He then fell silent for most of the day... Maj. Hasan had also asked to argue that he carried out the shooting in "defense of others," namely members of the Taliban fighting in Afghanistan, but the judge denied that strategy.

In an utterly disgraceful act on the part of the Obama administration, Hasan's rampage has not been categorized as an act of terrorism though that is clearly what it was. Sara Noble explains that the Holder Justice Department has instead labeled Hasan's slaughter as "workplace violence".

Nadal Hassan... began his opening statement at his trial Tuesday saying, “The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter... We mujahedeen are imperfect soldiers trying to form a perfect religion. I apologize for any mistakes I made in this endeavor,” the unrepentant Hasan said...

...The act of terror by Hasan, who was in contact with now-deceased terrorist Anwar al-Awalaki, was declared an incident of workplace violence though it was obviously a terrorist attack...

...The victims are and were not eligible for the Purple Heart as a result.

As Noble observes, the Ft. Hood attack was categorized as "workplace violence" because he faced reelection and needed to pretend that Al Qaeda was "on the run". Just like Benghazi. Just like Benghazi.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Monday, August 05, 2013

BOMBSHELL REPORT: Valerie Jarrett Gave the Orders on 9/11/2012 and Blocked Rescue in Benghazi

And such a report is entirely believable, given that Jarrett nixed the raid on Bin Laden three separate times. Chip Jones of The Conservative Report writes:

Valerie Jarrett, Commander in Chief


Confidential sources close to Conservative Report have confirmed that Valerie Jarrett was the key decision-maker for the administration, the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11/2012. 

The chronology of the evening of 9/11 are as follows: 

At approximately 5 PM Washington time, reports came in through secure-channels that Special Mission Benghazi was under attack. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey summoned the President,and briefed him on the crisis, face to face. 

Subsequent to that brief meeting, President Obama proceeded to the White House to dine in his living quarters. 

After supper, Barack Obama had a telephone conference scheduled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...  As that meeting drew to a close, Ms. Jarrett, who is also the Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, went from the living quarters to the White House Situation Room, where the attack in Benghazi was being monitored by Dempsey, Panetta and other top-ranking officials.

Whether she was instructed by the President to go there, or if she went of her own volition, is only known by the President and herself.

A critical question that needed to be answered, and the sole military-order that could have launched offensive-actions, neutralizing the Ansar al Sharia terrorists attacks on the Mission (the purpose of which are detailed here) and its subsequent attacks on the adjacent CIA Annex, was the issuance of “Cross Border Authority”, an order that can only be issued by the Commander in Chief himself.