I just get done writing one “poop-stinky” hitting the fan blog entry and I stumble upon another one.
Not to get all….um, how do I put it? Oh, scheiß drauf. As the German’s would say — Nicht, um alle jüdischen darüber oder anothing …. ABER!
Oy Vey…..
Tag: Obama
QOTD: Obama loses the NYT
WOW….just Wow… 😯
Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.
Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability.
The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the 9/11 attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.
Poop, meet fan.
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The US continues spying on phones under Obama
There are a ton of opinions on this subject and we’ll get to those in a moment.
But first the story:
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.
The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19.
Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.
via NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily | World news | The Guardian.
But, there is a big difference this time:
Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under President Obama.
The unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is extremely unusual. Fisa court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target who is suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets.
Which sounds about right for the Democrats, because they are perfectly fine with Government of a massive scale.
Now there are two very important opinions on this subject that I want you to see. They are same political slant; however, the opinions are very different. Please go check out Michelle Malkin’s take and Ed Morrissey’s take on this subject. While I agree on Michelle Malkin’s assessment, I really do not agree with her narrative at all. If you are smart and read her a good deal, you will know what I am talking about.
Now there is one thing that Ed Morrissey wrote that I, as an Independent, and someone who believes that the war on terror is a very real thing and that we should at least try to keep America safe, without trampling on our constitutional rights. I believe this to be very true and very profound statement coming from someone like Mr. Morrissey:
Hypocrisy is an unfortunately ubiquitous condition in politics, but in the case of NSA seizing Verizon’s phone records, it’s particularly widespread. Some of the people expressing outrage for the Obama administration’s efforts at data mining had a different attitude toward it when Bush was in office. Conversely, we’ll see some people defending Obama who considered Bush evil incarnate for the same thing.
Either way, we’re left with the situation of having the federal government seizing private records without any meaningful civil due process that engages the citizens affected, whether that includes actual wiretaps or just cataloguing our calls and movements. Perhaps this will move this issue out of the partisan sphere and into a common ground in which we can all work to define exactly how far we’re willing to go in trading privacy for security. In order to get there, we’d all better recognize the hypocrisy that has abounded on this issue for far too long, and start thinking about higher principles than party affiliation when it comes to national security and constitutional protections.
Now that last part that I underlined, is something I wholeheartedly agree with. When the story broke about Bush and Co. came about the wiretaps, I remember Keith Olbermann doing a special comment on it and I admired him for standing up. Now, where’s Keith? Where are the liberals who thought that this was much too intrusive? Where are they now? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
My hat tip goes to Glenn Greenwald for putting principles over partisanship and getting this story to the masses. Glenn has been about the only liberal who has stood up and pointed out that Obama Administration has continued the policies of the George W. Bush Administration and in some cases; like this one here — has expanded them to an alarming degree. Yes, this is overreach and it is alarming and I do hope the Congress does something about it.
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Another Republican talking point about Obama’s healthcare law proven wrong
This is good news for people like me, who will soon be working for a living again, and will most likely need help from this new healthcare law.
The Story:
One of these days, a dire prediction about Obamacare will come true. Today isn’t it.
The Administration on Thursday released new information about the “Federally Facilitated Marketplaces.” Under Obamacare, every state must have an exchange—a place where people without employer-sponsored insurance can find insurance. Some states are running their own exchanges. Others are asking the federal government to do most, or all of, the work. Those federal-run exchanges are the FFMs.
To be successful, exchanges must have enough plans to generate some competition. The whole idea of the exchanges is to let people shop around, seeking the best combination of benefits, service, and prices—just as they might shop for a car, an accountant, or any other good or service. Yes, that’s probably more of a conservative idea than a liberal one. But, for competition to take place, insurers must participate. And conservatives have predicted the insurers would stay away, because of Obamacare’s supposedly onerous regulations and a fear that the whole system is doomed to collapse.
Even liberals like me have worried how the insurers might act—and, sure enough, some carriers really do seem wary. But plenty aren’t. On Thursday, the administration announced it expects the FFMs to have more than sufficient competition. At least one new insurer will be offering plans in about three-fourths of the FFMs, according to the administration, and 90 percent of “target enrollees” (people the administration is hoping will use the exchanges) will be able to choose from at least five different insurers. Given the poor state of competition that exists in many states today, the administration says, that’s a big improvement.
The data is preliminary and sketchy—and the improvement may not be as dramatic as the administration made it sound. “I would characterize it as modest plan competition,” Caroline Pearson, vice president for health reform at Avalere Helath, told Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post. “In most markets, there seems to be a bit more choice than what’s available in the market today. But we’re certainly not seeing a wild influx of plans into the market.”
via Obamacare Insurance Options: Looks like exchanges will have plenty | New Republic.
Believe me when I tell you, I am not a huge fan of President Obama and I was not too keen on the idea of “Obamacare.” However, I will tell you this, if anyone knows all about the cost of rising healthcare in this Country — It would be me. I had to cancel my health insurance that I was getting through the COBRA program. It just kept going up and finally, I simply decided to stop putting out that kind of money; and this was back when I was working full-time as a straight truck driver.
Needless to say, I am glad to hear that the Republicans might just be wrong on this little issue here. 😀
Oh, and by the way, I have some pretty darned good reasons for feeling this way too. 😡
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About those ricin letters
I have some thoughts about this here and I will share them after the story here:
A threatening letter was mailed to President Obama that is similar to two letters containing poisonous ricin sent to Mayor Bloomberg and his anti-gun group, officials confirmed Thursday.
The letter, first reported by NBC 4 New York, is being tested for ricin. It was received Wednesday at an off-site facility, and did not reach the White House, according to the Secret Service.
“This letter has been turned over to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force for testing and investigation,” said Brian Leary, a Secret Service spokesman.
The text of that mailing was identical to the letters sent to the mayor and his gun group, which threatened: “what’s in this letter is nothing compared to what I’ve got planned for you,” police and law enforcement sources said.
via Third Letter Sent to President Obama, Similar to NY Mayor Ricin Letters: Officials | NBC New York.
I just want to say the following: Call me cynical, but I happen to think that anyone who blames the NRA for the actions of one lone nut; is just scapegoating. Of course, the usual suspects are blaming that organization. I mean, it is one thing to blame radical Islam or America’s foreign policy for terrorism and Jihad. Because it is established that Islam, especially that of a political sort happens to be a threat. A threat most likely created by the United States love for foreign policy. However, this could have been some lone nut or even some idiot looking to smear the gun crowd.
This is why I have come to dislike politics, because both sides case blame so early, which is very dumb in my opinion. Casting blame cheapens the debate. Now, before anyone says it in comments; I know about the stupid “We came unarmed, this time” signs. I wish those people with those signs were removed the Tea Party gatherings, as it gives the impression that Tea Party people are crazy. The accusation that the Tea Party supporters are crazy gun nuts or whatever is so totally unfair, because a good number of those people are like me —- people who love their Country and just do not want to see it end up like up like Europe or even worse, like Canada with a broken healthcare system or worse — broke. Truthfully, America is already broke and borrowing money for China as it is.
However, that is no reason to send these sort of letters, nor is it a reason do it, if you think your gun rights are being infringed upon. The best course of action is the ballot box; which is an American constitutional right that many a brave man fought, bled and died for in this Country and in other Countries abroad.
Anyway, just my thoughts on the subject. 😀
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Update: Pic of said letter:
(via ABC News)
Sorry — accusing the President of United States of America of being high on cocaine is just WRONG!
First of all, before I get into this little story, let me remind everyone; for the purpose of informing the drive-by readers, that I am not an Obama supporter at all. I voted for Mitt Romney and I have repeatedly criticized this President before he was elected and after he was elected. However, I did have him the benefit of the doubt on Benghazi, and I also rescinded that, once all the scandals came out.
However, the following that I am about report about, made even this Obama critic want to retch when I saw this idiotic conspiracy theory, which is solely based in old school Democratic Party racism; dressed up a legitimate political speculation.
Please, feast your eyes on this disgusting piece of racist bile, by a one Kevin DuJan — a Homosexual Hillary Clinton Supporter: (H/T to Little Green Footballs)
Yesterday, Rich Lowry at Politico wrote about “The Mystery Night” on September 11th, 2012 when the current US President disappeared for many hours and was seemingly unavailable…despite the fact that the first US Ambassador in 30 years had been murdered in the line of duty. Lowry wonders where Barack Obama disappeared to that fateful night…and why White House aide Dan Pfeiffer insists it’s “irrelevant” where Obama was in those missing hours.
If you’ve ever known anyone who is a drug addict, you’d see it’s obvious that Barack Obama was high on cocaine the night of Benghazi; it is the only logical explanation for his disappearance and the White House’s refusal to comment on what he was doing at the time. Since this was a night of great crisis for our country, the only logical reason that the White House won’t explain where the president was is if this man was high as a kite on illegal narcotics at the time.
Lowry did a great job in his article fleshing out the last time Obama was seen on September 11th of last year…and then noting when he reappeared again the next day, briefly, before jetting off to fabulous Las Vegas for a fun-and-games fundraiser event he had scheduled there (where, it also should be noted, not only Chippendales but also Thunder From Down Under male revues are regularly held…which certainly establishes the appeal of heading to Las Vegas instead of managing a national crisis back in Washington for this particular president).
The sick and sad part? This actually was linked to and written about, by some deranged far right loon, who writes at the Examiner.com.
For the record, Kevin DuJan is a Hillary Clinton supporter, who was one of the many who was fanning the flames of the idiotic conspiracy theories of the President not being an american citizen. The Hillary campaign were the ones who discovered this story; on, of all places, a White Nationalist website. After this, some so-called “Conservative” websites began, without attribution — copying this story, nearly word for word. This idiotic theory about Obama being a cokehead, and the basis for this libel was started by a one Larry Sinclair, who is, for lack of a better word, a thug criminal, with a questionable past.
Larry Sinclair is also a Homosexual, who is friends with, and used to broadcast his radio show on Jeff Rense’s network. Jeff Rense is a notorious Anti-Semite. I happen to know about all of this, because I happened to be blogging about of this, when it originally broke back in 2007 on my old blog — feel free to check the archives for yourselves.
The point of this, is not to defend the President of the United States, as much as it is to expose these two-bit, racist and anti-Semites for what they truly are —- hate mongers. It is a tragic sad shame that the Democratic Party is still the home of scum-sucking hate mongers like these people. This is why Hillary lost, not because she was not qualified to do the job; but because of the racial bigotry that she became “chummy” with during the 2008 election. It was a sick and sad ending to the new left that might have been able to fix the damage of the Neocons who were in power. Instead, because of the idiotic missteps of the Hillary campaign, such this here —- the new left was defeated.
Now let me be clear on something here. This is not my attempt at Frankfort School PC nonsense. This is the real deal, old bigotry that did, in fact, raise its head during the election. I was there, I saw it and yes, I wrote about it at the time. I am not a fan of the PC nonsense at all. But, as a Christian and as a someone who thinks that this brand of hate; although, I have been accused of it, by people with an agenda —- is simply immoral and wrong. Period. Furthermore, I will call these people out and expose them for what they are, no matter what the cost it is to me as a writer and blogger.
….and that…..is all.
Best thing I’ve read in the New York Post in a long time
I hate to say it, but I happen to like this blunt, frank, assessment of the middle east. It is the best one that I have seen in a very long time.
Quoting Ralph Peters in The New York Post:
The Arab Spring has unleashed the Arab Collapse. Everybody still standing in the region is picking the flesh of the helpless. The Islamist cancer proved more virulent than Arabs themselves expected, while dying regimes behave with unrestrained ruthlessness.
And our diplomats still think everyone can be cajoled into harmony.
We’re witnessing a titanic event, the crack-up of a long-tottering civilization. Arab societies grew so corrupt and stagnant that violent upheaval became inevitable. That’s what we’re seeing in Syria and Iraq — two names, one struggle — and will find elsewhere tomorrow.
The next country to go: Rescuers working at the site of a car bomb in Kirkuk, Iraq, last week. Violence is rising rapidly across the country.We can’t stop it, we can’t fix it, and we don’t understand it. But we can stay out of it.
[….]
The Saudi position is always “You and him fight!” As long ago as Desert Storm, Saudis joked about renting the American army and our bumpkin gullibility. (Try to find one US officer who’s worked with the Saudis and doesn’t hate their guts. . .) Now they want Washington to spend our blood and treasure to open the mosques of Damascus to their Wahhabi cult.
[….]
Iraq was carved out for British interests, while Syria was France’s consolation prize. Now Syria’s collapsing in a too-many-factions-to-count civil war. And Iraq’s in the early stages of its own dissolution; even a would-be dictator — another of our one-time “friends,” Nouri al-Maliki — can’t keep the “country” together.
We don’t even know how many new states will emerge from the old order’s wreckage. But the Scramble for the Sand is on, with Iran, Turkey, treacherous Arab oil sheikdoms and terrorists Sunni and Shia alike all determined to dictate the future, no matter the cost in other people’s blood.
We had our chance to extend the peace and keep both Iran and Wahhabi crazies at bay after we defeated Iraq’s insurgencies. But a new American president, elevating politics over strategy, walked away from Baghdad, handing Iraq to Iran. Now it’s too late. If George W. Bush helped trigger the Arab Spring, Barack Obama made this Arab Winter inevitable.
We must not be lured into the current fighting — centered, for now, on Syria — by cries of humanitarian necessity. The local powers could step in to stop the killing. But they won’t. Once again, they want us to pay the bill. (It’s time for the Saudis, especially, to give their own blood.)
We’ve paid enough. Rhetoric and red lines notwithstanding, we need to back off from Syria, if for no other reason than a strategist’s golden rule: If you don’t understand what a fight’s about, stay out.
I can tell you that if back in during the heyday of the Bush Administration someone had written something like this about the middle east and Iraq; they would have been ran out of Murdoch’s owned company on a rail! This shows me, that the chickenhawk right has become a very small minority now and is being replaced by people who simply want common sense in foreign policy on the right. This is a very positive step in the right direction.
Honestly, this really sounds like something from the American Conservative and, as far as this writer is concerned, Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul; and the rest those who said Iraq was a bad idea —- were very much right.
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Benghazi and IRS scandal facts are irrelevant according to Obama flack Dan Pfeiffer
This here my friends —– is called digging your own hole, with your own shovel. However, in this case, I would call it “your own backhoe.” It is, as the Three Stooges short was called, “Dutiful, But Dumb.”
I simply cannot believe that I actually was stupid enough to give these stupid son-of-a-bitches the benefit of the doubt. 🙄
Video #1 via Weekly Standard:
Video #2 also via Weekly Standard:
The general rule is, when you’re in the hole, like this Presidential Administration; you…..stop….digging…. So, somebody needs to tell Pfeiffer to shut off that Cat® and take the keys away from him — before he ends in China! (or worse! 😯 😀 )
Related:
- Benjamin Bell / ABCNEWS: Dan Pfeiffer: IRS Behavior ‘Inexcusable’ Whether or Not Illegal
- Meghashyam Mali / The Hill: Pfeiffer defends White House handling of IRS targeting scandal
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Update: From reader Judith:
Later this month barry and michelle are hosting a concert in the WH featuring greats like Carol King, Billy Joel and others. I hope Billy Joel dedicates this song to our fearless leader.
Here’s the song that she is referring to:
[podcast]
Wishful thinking there Judith. But, quite funny. 😉 😀
I guess we can put Dana Milbank in the non-Obama left corner too
Ouch! 😯
Quote:
NPR’s Ari Shapiro asked Carney to square Obama’s belief in an unfettered press with the fact that he has prosecuted twice as many leakers as all previous administrations combined.
Carney said Obama’s love of press freedom “is backed up by his support for a media shield law.” This would be the shield law that died in Congress in 2010 because of Obama’s objections.
Alexis Simendinger, from RealClearPolitics, challenged Carney to harmonize his refusal to meddle in an “ongoing investigation” with Obama’s comments on the Trayvon Martin case last year, when a Justice Department investigation was ongoing.
“Come on,” Carney replied with scorn, repeating the excuse that “we have no knowledge” of the phone snooping “beyond the press reports that we’ve read.”
And that’s just the problem.
via Dana Milbank: Obama, the uninterested president – The Washington Post.
Yeah, I pretty much think that Obama bit the very hand that elected him; and I believe you are going to see a press driven beltway turning against Obama.
UPDATED – It’s official: The Obama Administration is in deep trouble and I am done defending them
My friends, I was very, very wrong and for that, I am terribly sorry. 🙁
I said that I believed that the entire Benghazi, Libya debacle was over-hyped by the Republicans; and I still believe that, to a point.
However, there are many things that have come up since then, which I simply cannot defend.
They are:
- The IRS targeting Jewish groups. – I mean, honestly, what the hell were the IRS and Obama’s people thinking when they let this one happen?
- IRS targeting Conservative groups in Washington and Elsewhere. — Did they not know that this would be exposed?
- DOJ going after the AP – This is borderline Watergate, so says a watergate player. — Again, what the hell were these people thinking?
My friends, the “Giving the benefit of the doubt” of the President and his Administration by this writer and blogger are over. There is no doubt in my mind that the Obama administration; much like the Administration of George W. Bush, became consumed with a lust for power and abused and exploited the office of President of the United States and the instruments of Governmental office for political purposes.
I leave you with two videos:
Update: Better clip via The American Spectator:
The Democrats have screwed themselves out of ever winning an election; for like oh, maybe the next 2 major election cycles. This is the sad part, Obama and his Administration promised Americans that he would be a clean break from the policies and practices of President George W. Bush and his Administration and sadly, it turns out that Obama and his Administration are just as bad; if not even worse. As I wrote before, it is sad ending to a Presidency that offered so much to give; but ended up delivering little or nothing at all, in the realm of change.
It is going to be a long, hot, nasty, political summer for America, Americans, Black Liberal Americans and for Washington D.C.. I just hope that cool heads prevail. But, I really do fear the worst in yet to come.
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Update #1: Franklin Graham says they were targeted. Those rat bastards have no shame at all. 😡
Update #2: Obama Admin’s IRS targeted reporter who gave hard interview.
Update #3: I am just going to say this and get it off my chest:
IMPEACH THE FUCKER AND GET IT OVER WITH!
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