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Obama behaved stupidly, prejudiced juries…
President Obama’s comments condemning military sexual assault and suggesting that those convicted be punished with, among other things, a dishonorable discharge may be backfiring on his efforts to root out the growing problem.
In pretrial hearings in two cases, a Navy judge in Hawaii ruled this week that Obama had exerted “unlawful command influence” as commander-in-chief in outlining the specific “consequences” he saw fit for members of the military convicted of sexual assault.
As a result of Navy Judge Cmdr. Marcus Fulton’s rulings, the defendants in United States v. Johnson and United States v. Fuentes can’t be punitively discharged, even if they’re convicted of sexual assault. Stars and Stripes first reported on the rulings.
That’s right. The bumblefuck “constitutional law professor” strikes again.
So, what about Obama’s comment that, if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin? What’s up with that?
ShareTextbook, Garden Variety Moonbattery
I know some here say we should just ignore the moonbats but I disagree. I believe we should make a study of them. We should try to understand their tortured logic, their bizarre thinking and their psychological need to project their own obsession with race on others. It is all on display here.
Here they talk guns and claim that gun rights advocates are “not normal”, “obsessed” and, of course “racist”.
Watch.
Ronald Reagan’s son must have him spinning in the grave, huh?
ShareNancy Pelosi fails both Introduction to Logic and Rhetoric 101
A reporter asked Nancy Pelosi this question…
“What is the moral difference between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth?”
Here is Pelosi’s non-answer.
“What was done in Philadelphia was reprehensible, and everybody condemned it.”
And…
“For them to decide to disrespect the judgment a woman makes about her reproductive health is reprehensible.”
So her answer is that one is reprehensible and the other isn’t.
Why is Gosnell bad and other abortionists good? According to Pelosi, the answer is obvious: Gosnell is bad and other abortionists are good. No further explanation is necessary and, if you ask for one, you are going to piss her off.
And then she added this reprehensible rhetorical turd to her comments.
“As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when you talk about this.”
How does a respectful Catholic refer to an act the Roman Catholic Church calls a mortal sin as “sacred ground”?
Isn’t it cute, by the way, how the gather reporters chuckle over her quip regarding the reporter “savoring” his question?
ShareHundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in the United States?
The Obama Administration is considering it.
Two years into a civil war that shows no signs of ending, the Obama administration is considering resettling refugees who have fled Syria, part of an international effort that could bring thousands of Syrians to American cities and towns.
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families.
The State Department is “ready to consider the idea,” an official from the department said, if the administration receives a formal request from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, which is the usual procedure.
Taking the Administration’s lead, I am considering granting hundreds of thousands of ebola viruses refugee status in my bloodstream.
ShareSupport Drunk Driving Illegal Immigrants Now!
John Cornyn has proposed an amendment to the Gang of 8 bill has nothing to do with border security. It prevents illegal immigrants who have been convicted of driving under the influence from getting on the path to amnesty.
Cornyn’s amendment would bar illegal immigrants with misdemeanor DUI convictions from ”probationary” legal status, which is the immediate legalization offered by Marco Rubio, et al, to most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S.. For the pro-amnesty side, the exclusion of DUI offenders is apparently a deal-killer. There must be a lot of them!
Pro-Gang Democrats (and Republicans) understandably don’t want to publicize their DUI defense. DUI offenders are not an inherently popular group, and accidents in which undocumented immigrant drivers kill innocent civilians tend to be well publicized. It’s not a coincidence that Obama’s executive mini-amnesty of so-called “Dreamers”–issued before the 2012 election–claimed to exclude DUI offenders. But the broader Gang of 8 legislation, written after the election, allows two free misdemeanors–apparently including DUIs–before an illegal immigrant is disqualified.
Wow. How many Illegal Democrats Immigrants have DUI convictions that it would be a deal killer? I think the amnesty supporting lawmakers should show the courage of their convictions and stand up for the rights of drunk drivers. C’mon! Stop sneaking around and be proud to support a path to amnesty for drunk driving illegal immigrants.
The EEOC opposes background checks in hiring
Why does the EEOC oppose you checking to make sure you aren’t hiring a child molester at Toys R Us?
Mr. Lopez, the EEOC general counsel, said the Dollar General and BMW cases are “very serious systemic race discrimination cases.” At both companies, the EEOC cited statistical disparities in the hiring rates of blacks and nonblacks after the companies ran criminal-background checks.
The commission said Dollar General revoked conditional employment offers for 10% of its black applicants, but only 7% of its nonblack applicants, between January 2004 and April 2007. With more than 344,000 applicants involved, the numbers created an improper “gross disparity” based on race, the commission said. The company has more than 90,000 employees.
See? If you have a policy of not hiring criminals, you will reject black applicants at a rate greater than nonblack applicants. That makes you a racist.
Of course it is okay for the government. They run background checks on everyone they hire. When the FBI, the CIA and the United States Military stop doing background checks, let’s talk.
ShareFBI Director doesn’t know a thing about IRS investigation…
And I mean he doesn’t know anything at all. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) yesterday questioned FBI Director Robert Mueller on the IRS scandal. Mueller could not answer even basic questions about the investigation of the IRS targeting of conservative groups.
Who the hell is minding the shop in Washington? Nobody knows a damned thing about anything in this government.
ShareOh sequestration, we barely knew thee….
Obama’s trip to Africa to cost up to $100 million. And no, not in Zimbabwe dollars.
ShareWhen President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances.
Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.
Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay.
Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.
Wagging the Dog in Syria
What is the cure for a shit storm of scandal news on the home front? Why war, that’s what.
The White House announced Thursday that the Obama administration has conclusive evidence that Syrian
President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against his opposition, killing up to 150 people in the last year and crossing what President Obama has called a “red line” that would lead to greater American involvement in the crisis.
It was not immediately clear what the next U.S. move would be, but a statement by Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes said that the use of chemical weapons by Syria has changed the President’s “calculus.”
Pentagon officials told FoxNews.com that they did not expect immediate U.S. military action. However, the Associated Press reported Thursday night that U.S. officials had confirmed that President Obama authorized sending weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time.
The plan, as near as I can figure, is to arm al Qaeda terrorists to battle Assad who is a stooge of the Iranians but an ally of Syrian Christians. Sounds like a plan. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, if there is one thing that Obama has always been clear on: If a Middle Eastern dictator has any WMDs, America must go to war to prevent their use. He has always said that, right?
Fun Fact: Obama has killed more people with drone strikes, sent more troops to war and attacked more countries than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined.
Prepare for searing, gut wrenching outrage
Here we have a woman in family court trying to vacate a temporary restraining order her ex-husband had sought to obtain. For some reason, an obese marshal takes her into a room to do a drug test. He allegedly gropes her.
The woman comes out of the room and complains to the judge that she had been assaulted. The judge ignores her and the same damned obese marshal arrests her for “making false allegations about a police officer”. That isn’t even a crime. The judge does nothing and the woman’s daughter begs them not to take her momma away.
If this doesn’t light your guts on fire, I don’t know what will.
ShareGuess what is specifically exuded from Obama’s surveliance
You guessed it: Mosques are excluded.
Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.
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Before mosques were excluded from the otherwise wide domestic spy net the administration has cast, the FBI launched dozens of successful sting operations against homegrown jihadists — inside mosques — and disrupted dozens of plots against the homeland.If only they were allowed to continue, perhaps the many victims of the Boston Marathon bombings would not have lost their lives and limbs. The FBI never canvassed Boston mosques until four days after the April 15 attacks, and it did not check out the radical Boston mosque where the Muslim bombers worshipped.
The bureau didn’t even contact mosque leaders for help in identifying their images after those images were captured on closed-circuit TV cameras and cellphones.
One of the Muslim bombers made extremist outbursts during worship, yet because the mosque wasn’t monitored, red flags didn’t go off inside the FBI about his increasing radicalization before the attacks.
Doubtless the feds are too busy trying to figure out why they haven’t been able to detect and tap the high tech, ultra-wideband, encrypted communications of America’s Amish communities.
ShareObamacare killing Congress?
Yeah, I am having a hard time finding even a grain of sympathy.
Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.
The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.
…
If the issue isn’t resolved, and massive numbers of lawmakers and aides bolt, many on Capitol Hill fear it could lead to a brain drain just as Congress tackles a slew of weighty issues — like fights over the Tax Code and immigration reform.
Nah, don’t worry folks. They will find a way to exempt themselves while you end up holding the bag. You know that.
ShareObama: An Orwellian pig
The Obama of 2013 is exactly what the Obama of 2008 claimed to despise.
The real effect of the NSA stories is to cement a narrative about Obama that will likely become part of his legacy: the liberal senator and constitutional law professor who, like the pigs in “Animal Farm,” metamorphosed into what he had so notoriously opposed. Guantanamo remains open. Drones still rain down on Pakistan, Yemen, and anywhere else the president sees fit. Leaks are prosecuted vigorously and reporters are investigated to uncover their sources. And now, the president is affirming the surveillance practices he once mused could be unconstitutional. In light of these actions alone, it seems that Barack Obama has learned that George W. Bush got a lot of things right.
Snowden getting less sympathetic by the minute.
Snowden is in China telling the Chinese about American surveillance and hacking of their systems.
The former CIA employee who leaked information about the U.S. surveillance programs before fleeing to Hong Kong is claiming the NSA has also been hacking computers in Hong Kong and mainland China since 2009, saying he wants Hong Kong to decide his fate.
Edward Snowden reportedly told the South China Morning Post newspaper Thursday that the NSA has been monitoring the Chinese University of Hong Kong and public officials and citizens in the city.
Snowden told the paper he believes there have been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally.
There is a word for that: Treason
ShareSimple things during the Bush years are soooo complicated now…
Joe Scarborough calls out the hypocrites….
As the only Republican, I think, in this area code right now, it sure was hell as simple when George W. Bush was president. Everybody sure got the long knives out when George W. Bush was president … all of these questions were so simple, Mika. It was so black and white. George Bush and Dick Cheney, they were evil. Now suddenly, we’re launching drone strikes into countries, killing civilians, where we aren’t even at war … and we’re killing Americans, and suddenly everybody goes, ‘you know what, this is such a complicated thing.
The other fun part of the video was that Chris Matthews came very, very close to claiming that the word “government” is a right wing dog whistle meaning “nigger”. He wanted to say it but, evidently, he didn’t have that fifth martini before going on air today.
UPDATE: By the way, Revoistas, remember this when they resurrect Zombie Reagan and we elect him president. Our moral compass shouldn’t spin with changes in the political winds.
I confess that I wasn’t adequately suspicious of the the Patriot Act, the creation of the TSA and surveillance programs during the Bush years. In my defense, I didn’t feel like Bush and Cheney hated my guts as I know the entire Obama Administration does. I had no reason to fear Bush like I do Obama. That said, it shouldn’t matter. Either the government should be engaging in spying on the citizenry or it shouldn’t. I think not; at least not dragnet style.
We need to remember this all the way through the second term of the President Allen West Administration, okay? If it isn’t okay now, it won’t be okay when our guy is in office.
ShareThe Taxman is heavily armed…
The IRS is using high capacity assault magazines and everything…
South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District representative wants to know why he saw IRS agents training with powerful, semi-automatic rifles.
Republican Jeff Duncan said he made the discovery at a Maryland Federal Law Enforcement Training Center on May 23.
The congressman was touring the facility with Homeland Security officials as part of his investigation into the amount of ammunition purchases the agency conducts.
Duncan told News 4’s Sean Muserallo he saw about eight or nine shooters identified to him as IRS agents practicing at an indoor 100-yard range.
“While we were sitting there,” said Duncan, “the gentleman told them to sling their weapons and load a 30-round magazine into the AR-15s they were training with.”
Why are tax collectors training with scary black rifles of death? I know! I know!
ShareThe “Impartial” Civil Service
Sure, let the bureaucrats who control the levers of the Leviathan know you are conservative and voted for Mitt Romney. They are impartial and you have nothing to worry about.
Washington cannot be fixed.
ShareAl Gore is bummed out
Scientists won’t let him blame the Moore Oklahoma tornado on global warming. This makes Manbearpig unhappy.
Former Vice President Al Gore lamented on Tuesday that scientists “won’t let us yet” link tornadoes to climate change.
Gore alluded to last month’s devastating twister in Moore, Okla., saying that shoddy historical statistics are preventing a connection between “these record-breaking tornadoes and the climate crisis.”
The former vice president made the comments at Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) annual Rhode Island energy and environment conference at the Capitol.
Scientists have generally avoided associating individual extreme weather events to climate change, though they say its effects intensify such incidents.
Gore said there’s a political interest in determining climate change causes extreme weather. He said lawmakers cannot address the root of disasters without first making a connection between emissions, climate change and extreme weather.
Science is so much easier when you are allowed to just make shit up, you know?
On the other hand, Gore is quite pleased to ignore the the direct relationship between global warming theory and the corporatist/socialist agenda.
ShareTeachers’ Unions bad for children
Teacher pay and benefits keep increasing, educational outcomes stagnate or deteriorate. The “shocking” conclusion of a new study is that when people are not held accountable for performance and rewards are disassociated from results, educational outcomes suffer. To that I say, “duh”.
The authors cite an array of studies examining the impact of teachers’ unions and their negotiating strategies. The majority of these studies have found that collective-bargaining agreements typically focus on higher teacher pay and benefits and greater job security, with little consideration given to student performance. In fact, teachers’ unions have historically resisted most efforts to hold teachers accountable for the academic performance of their students, and have succeeded consistently. Tenure policies, for instance, make it virtually impossible to fire unqualified or ineffective teachers. Most states award tenure automatically after about three years, and do not test a new teacher’s mastery of even the most basic reading and math skills. Perhaps not surprisingly, this has had a largely negative impact on the students themselves, especially those in large urban school districts with a high percentage of black and Hispanic students.
The paper compares student-performance data from two such districts, New York City and Chicago (both of which require collective bargaining), with data from Charlotte, N.C., and Austin, Texas, urban districts in states where collective bargaining is banned for public employees. The two different situations reveal how collective bargaining is inflating salaries, compensation, and job security while it’s strangling policies that could help student achievement.
Teachers’ unions exist to support the interests of teachers even at the expense of students. Unions, by definition, have adversarial relationships with their employers. The employers of teachers are parents and, by extension, students. Teachers’ unions, therefore, organize against students.
ShareActress loses half her Twitter followers
She lost half her followers because, after reading about the four year old who accidentally killed his father, she called for gun safety. That pissed off her followers because they are want a world where gun safety isn’t necessary. There is no need for gun safety if citizens are not allowed to own guns.
ShareActress Katee Sackoff said she lost half of her Twitter followers when she tweeted a message urging people to practice gun safety.
After watching a television report about a four-year-old who accidentally shot and killed his father with a loaded gun that had been left unattended at a friend’s house, the “Battlestar Galactica” star tweeted Monday:
“Please practice gun safety. This is horrible!”
Soon after, Sackoff’s Twitter feed blew up with followers advocating gun control instead of gun safety.
“Here’s a radical idea folks. How about NO gun?” one wrote.
Obama gives up and rolls over on Plan B
Boy, the administration didn’t seem to fight this court very hard, huh?
The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the best-known morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama.
The government’s decision means that any woman or girl will soon be able to walk into a drugstore and buy the pill, Plan B One-Step, without a prescription.
The Justice Department had been fighting to prevent that outcome, but said late Monday afternoon that it would accept its losses in recent court rulings and begin putting into effect a judge’s order to have the Food and Drug Administration certify the drug for nonprescription use.
Yeah, that is what we call “putting on a show of opposition”. The Administration wanted this outcome anyway.
Meanwhile, the Administration ignores a third, consistent, court order.
ShareDealing yet another blow to the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”), on May 16, 2013, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Obama’s 2010 recess appointment of Craig Becker to the NLRB was invalid. The case is NLRB v. New Vista Nursing & Rehabilitation, Case Nos. 11-3440, 12-1027 and 12-1936. The Third Circuit agreed with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Noel Canning, which invalidated the President’s 2012 appointments of Sharon Block and Richard Griffin.
Lois Lerner still logged in at IRS
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who was placed on administrative leave for her role in the IRS targeting scandal, is still getting paid and still has full access to the IRS’ systems and data therein.
ShareLerner was placed on administrative leave on May 21 after refusing to tender her resignation, and logged into the IRS’s computer system using her agency computer as recently as June 4, the source tells me. She has the ability to access the same information that was available to her before she was placed on leave. The source tells National Review Online:
[Lerner] can still access taxpayer data. If your duties do not inlude dealing with taxpayers, you are forbidden from seeing the information. That is a violation of IRS policy, and if she actually accesses any file that contains any Personal Identifiable Information, it is a felony violation. That would include emails that she has in her files discussing any taxpayer case that contains the name, address, phone numbers or tax data from a case. Actual Unauthorized Access (IRS uses the term UNAX) would be a really good reason for the new boss to can her in a hurry. I am sure a simple examination of her email files and hard drive would discover she still has taxpayer data.
