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Mar 27, 2013 12:45 PMThe Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that it will keep the air traffic control tower at Gabreski Airport open, just weeks after threatening its closure—and the closure of 188 other towers across the country—due to federal spending cuts.
The tower at the Westhampton airport was one of only two dozen such facilities fully funded by the federal government that were spared from closure. Another 16 towers that are partially funded by the federal government also were saved at the last minute, increasing the total number of spared towers to 40.
The FAA still intends to close 149 towers across the country over a four-week period, starting on Sunday, April 7, according to a statement released by the agency. Earlier this month, the FAA announced that it had to close 189 towers in order to trim more than $600 million from its $15.2 billion budget for the remainder of 2013, as part of the across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration.
“We heard from communities across the country about the importance of their towers, and these were very tough decisions,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a prepared statement.
In a statement, U.S. Representative Tim Bishop of Southampton said the FAA has determined that keeping the Gabreski tower open is in the “national interest,” explaining that the reversal was motivated by the fact that the Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing is based at the Suffolk County-owned airport. The base shares airspace with privately owned planes and aviation businesses.
ANG officials did not return calls and emails this week seeking comment on the FAA’s about-face.
“The preservation of FAA’s control tower at Gabreski is very welcome news to all of us who support the 106th Air Rescue Wing, as well as the general aviation community who rely on the tower to safely guide aircraft in and out of the airport,” Mr. Bishop said in a statement.
Anthony Ceglio, the manager of the airport, this week described the FAA’s decision as “huge,” explaining that the control tower is the “main reason the airport operates safely with the number of aircraft that take off and land throughout the year, especially in the summer.”
Originally, the FAA said it was going to close those towers that oversee fewer than 150,000 total operations each year. Last year, Gabreski had approximately 77,000 operations.
Like Mr. Bishop, Mr. Ceglio credited the presence of the ANG for saving the tower, which costs the federal government more than $500,000 a year to operate.
If the tower at Gabreski had been shuttered next month, pilots would have been forced to follow “non-tower” protocols, meaning they would be solely responsible for the operation of their aircraft when approaching and departing from the airport. At the present time, pilots are required to follow that protocol only at night; air traffic controllers are employed during the day.
The tower at Gabreski, as well as the 23 other facilities, were spared because federal officials decided that their closure would pose “significant threats to national security” following consultation with the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security. Potential economic impact was another factor, according to the FAA.
Mr. Ceglio said there are two banner-towing companies, one glider-towing firm and several charter jet companies that currently fly into Gabreski, and that some had expressed concern over the possible closure.
“If the tower closed, it was presumed that some companies might fly to other less busy airports,” Mr. Ceglio said. “That could have negatively affected jobs at the airport and in the surrounding communities that supply fuel to the airport, catering supplies for aircraft, rental car businesses, taxi companies, etc.”
Paul Mejean, the chairman of the Gabreski Airport Noise Abatement Work Group, said the continued presence of air traffic controllers should keep pilots safe. He noted that there are, on average, about 300 takeoffs and landings every day at Gabreski during daylight hours each summer.
“This works out to one every three minutes,” said Mr. Mejean, who lives in Quogue. “With that volume of uncontrolled traffic, there would have been the real possibility of a tragic accident.”
Equally important to those who, like him, live near the airport, the air traffic controllers will continue to steer pilots away from the most densely populated neighborhoods that surround the airport, when weather and air traffic permit. If the tower had closed, Mr. Mejean worried that pilots would have selected whatever runway was most convenient to them, ignoring the airport’s noise abatement policies.
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You first, TB.
Apart from me, there's more bipartisanship in Southampton politics than most people realize. Both major parties regularly have members of other parties ...more (Independence, Conservative) on their local tickets. Many judges are endorsed by the GOP and the Dems. The Southampton Town Board, for all its bickering, passes the great majority of its resolutions unanimously, and displays on any given day more "real bipartisan cooperation" than Congress does in a year.
As I said, sniff the air and take a look around. It's not all that bad.
Yes, many Town Board resolutions ARE passed unanimously (mostly of the "housekeeping" nature), but it seems that the politically-tinged ...more (think "Kratoville" or "Sordi") ones are the most divisive issues.
Did you see Mayor Bloomberg yesterday:
Government has right to ‘infringe on your freedom’ New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday: Sometimes government does know best. And in those cases, Americans should just cede their rights
This on the eve of this Reuters headline
CYPRUS TO SEIZE CITIZENS' CASH
Good old Socialism/Communism.....one small group of people mess up and the group as a whole suffers.
This is what happens when the statists ...more get to much control.
.....coming soon to the United States....stay tuned.
Voters seem to embrace Obama more warmly when he's campaigning, rather than when he's governing. It isn't just his poll numbers, ...more then, that jeopardize his domestic agenda. It is the simple fact that, increasingly, his allies on Capitol Hill are willfully ignoring him.
Consider these recent developments on major issues:
1. Guns. In the wake of the Newtown shooting, President Obama launched an aggressive push for sweeping new guns laws. He utilized every tool of the White House PR operation and identified and promoted three measures; an assault weapons ban, a limit on magazines and universal background checks. He mobilized his campaign operation to advocate for the measures. Today, however, Obama's agenda lies in tatters on the Senate floor. Each of his proposals were stripped out of the final gun bill by Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid. Some expansion of background checks may survive, but Obama's broad, "universal" checks appears dead.
When Reid removed the assault weapons ban from the legislation, he said there weren't 40 votes for it in the Senate. There are 55 Democrats in the Senate. For many of them, their political interests are not aligned with Obama's policy goals.
2. Budget. Both the House and the Senate have passed their respective budget proposals. The two chambers will now meet to see if they can reach a deal on a full-year budget. President Obama, however, has yet to submit his formal budget request to Congress. The President's budget ordinarily begins the budget talks on Capitol Hill. The delay of his budget is the longest since the budget process was revamped in 1921. It also suggests that he may little more than an observer to the budget talks.
This view is strengthened by an underreported event during Congress' budget work. Even though it hadn't submitted a budget plan, the Obama Administration did request Congress to include specific additional funds to implement parts of ObamaCare and financial services regulation. Neither chamber, including the Dem controlled Senate, honored that request. Democrats agree with the underlying programs, which indicates the funding denial is more of a parochial turf spat, allowing them to express exasperation with Obama's delay of his budget request.
3. ObamaCare. Late Friday, 34 Democrats, almost two-thirds of the caucus, joined Republicans in approving an amendment to repeal a medical-device excise tax, a key funding component of ObamaCare. While the amendment is non-binding, the vote signals the Democrats are open to repealing the more unpopular parts of ObamaCare. It is a clear sign that Obama's policy priorities are no longer an important factor in the Democrats' political calculus.
4. Keystone Pipeline. In another rebuke to the Obama Administration, 17 Senate Democrats joined their Republican amendment to pass an amendment directing the Obama Administration to immediately approve the proposed Keystone Pipeline. The defections came even as Sen. Barbara Boxer argued aggressively against the amendment. While this amendment is also non-bidding, it shows that support for building the pipeline is enough to overcome any future filibuster on the issue. It too is another sign that many of the Democrats' political fortunes are separate from Obama's agenda.
The past few weeks have witnessed stunning policy reversals for a President who was so recently reelected. At this point post-reelection, President's usually have a great deal of political capital to spend on their priorities. The side-lining of the President on domestic issues occurs in the run-up to the second term mid-terms. Obama seems to be taking his place on the domestic policy bench much sooner than past Presidents.
Without a dramatic reversal of political fortunes, his Presidency will shrink further from the political scene.
Eight months into President George W. Bush's second term, the Washington Post wrote that Bush's frequent trips to his Texas ranch symbolized "a lackadaisical approach to the world's most important day job" and gleefully noted that Bush was intent on setting the record for being on "vacation"--or away from Washington, D.C.--for the most number of days of any president.
But when President Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii, sets up a fantasy ...more golf vacation for himself with Butch Harmon and Tiger Woods, averages more than a vacation a month in 2013 while purporting to be a man of the people and demanding the rich pay their fair share, and playing sequester politics by shutting down White House tours, the mainstream media is silent.
Whats UP Doc !
After two items last week on the cost of lodging for Vice President Joe Biden's early February trip to Europe, other news organizations began to investigate further. Wolf Blitzer's show The Situation Room on CNN uncovered a contract apparently also related to the same visit to Paris:
Also on the receipt was $321,665 for a limousine company.
Dr. Carson sounds more and more like a viable candidate for prez each time he speaks. The liberal media is firing up the character assassination machine . can't have a conservative black man out there, he doesn't fit their narrative.
The U.S. government could save taxpayers up to $8 billion by selling off the estimated 55,000 to 77,000 vacant properties it owns or leases.
At a time when the White House says it cannot find the $18,000 a week it needs to fund tours, unloading unused properties to save taxpayers billions might seem like a no-brainer.
Across the country, thousands of students will travel to Washington, DC. The trips, funded by bake sales and other events throughout the year, will allow the students to take in Washington's historic landmarks.
One premier destination is off-limits this year, however. A few weeks ago, the obama Administration announced it was suspending public, self-guided tours of the White House ...more as a result of the automatic sequester cuts that the administration proposed in 2011. While America's students stand outside the White House fence, the First Daughters, Sasha and Malia, are enjoying spring break with friends at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas...
The principal reason the White House canceled public tours was to save money on Secret Service staff. The White House reported that suspending the tours would save $74,000. Other reports have put the savings at just $18,000 a week.
Whichever the true amount, the Secret Service detail necessary to protect the First Daughters on their spring break could have easily been used to keep the White House open to the rest of America's school children.
Truly Tasteless
LET THEM EAT CAKE!
Between fantasy golf arrangements W/ Tiger, Celeb. party's,B Ball and clubbing with Jay Z, all using Air force 1 with full Secret Service Detail & logistics . oh forgot flying out to dinner on Saturday "Date Night"
Do the Math $$$
No Phil why don't you tell us. I deserve an apology for your raciest assumption. You are just like the rest of the MSNBC slanderous crowd.
Which of my words do you base such a wild accusation on ???
You should be ashamed of your tactics
Everone remember to support Jay Leno tonight!
The Tonight Show just hit a all time high in total viewers with 3.52 million in the 18-49 demo with 982,000 viewers, according to Nielsen ratings.
The ratings bump for the week of March 18-22 came as Leno began taking nightly jabs at his employers NBC like referring to them as the snakes that we know they are, as news hit that a succession plan was in the works to replace him with prgressive ...more hack Jimmy Fallon.
So few words allowed that describe this hypocritical miscreant
You're a bunch of hippocrates
By philathome (4737
IS IT ME OR IS THIS GUY DELUSIONAL
According to Nielsen, ABC's annual rebroadcast of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) pulled in 5.9 million viewers Saturday night. The religious epic, which stars Charlton Heston as Moses, has been a ratings winner for ABC every year since 1973 when the network first began its tradition of airing the classic over the Easter/Passover weekend.
Nice bit of reverse engineering on your part.
You are twisted and the fact that you say you counsel children is even more twisted.
I take your challenge post your name and I will post mine I will even meet you for lunch and hand deliver it!
“I call upon all Americans to observe this month with programs and activities to improve their understanding of financial principles and ...more practices,” Obama said in an official proclamation released Friday.
They DON'T give a **** about you. ANY of you. The vast majority of the people who hold just about any position of authority in this country, especially in Washington DC don't care about YOU. Their main concern is their wallet, and the interests of their sponsors. Because, let's "get real" about it, these people have "sponsors" who "donate" to their campaigns for office. With a scant few exceptions, all the people you "elect" are bought and paid ...more for by the types of influence the Founders of this country expressly prohibited from being involved in civic life.
And unfortunately, it's not an April Fool.
Average net worth: $996,000
Quite a "fortune" for people (generally) paid $174,00 per annum...
I'm glad you called out CA for acting in such a partisan manner. Thank goodness we have you serving as a beacon of truth, honesty, and fair criticism of the good folks working for the people, regardless of what side of the aisle they stand. Golf clap, sir. Golf clap.
"In the video released prior to Election Day, Anonymous warns Karl Rove that he’s being watched. “We know that you will attempt to attempt to rig the election of Mitt Romney to your favor,” a black-robed figure in a Guy Fawkes mask says in the video. “We will ...more watch as your merry band of conspirators try to achieve this overthrow of the United States government.”
The figure then warns Rove that Anonymous is “watching and monitoring all your servers,” and goes on to say, “We want you to know that we are watching you, waiting for you to make this mistake of thinking you can rig this election to your favor…If we catch you we will turn over all of this data to the appropriate officials in the hopes that you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Because of their association with this odd behavior, lemming "suicide" is a frequently used but incorect metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion
The misconception of lemming "mass suicide" is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. In 1955, Disney Studio illustrator Carl Barks drew an Uncle Scrooge adventure comic with the title "The Lemming with the Locket". This comic, which was inspired by a 1953 American Mercury article, ...more showed massive numbers of lemmings jumping over Norwegian cliffs.[10][11] Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, in which staged footage was shown with lemmings jumping into certain death after faked scenes of mass migration.[12] A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Cruel Camera, found the lemmings used for White Wilderness were flown from Hudson Bay to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they did not jump off the cliff, but were in fact launched off the cliff using a turntable.[13]
This same act was also used in the Apple Computer 1985 Super Bowl commercial "Lemmings" and the popular 1991 video game Lemmings, in which the player must stop the lemmings from mindlessly marching over cliffs or into traps. In a 2010 board game by GMT games, "Leaping Lemmings", players must maneuver lemmings across a board while avoiding hazards, and successfully launch them off a cliff.
the truth about wealth in america collective evolution
Watch Joe Martino's video short, and get back to us.
The Washington Post Published: April 2
The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to pressure banks to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort he says will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
NO NO NO NO NO, Not this time, fool us once...
The actual problem was securitization which let lenders off the hook when it came to any responsibility for the loans they made. They didn't have to hold the note, the just took the commission and ran. Willful disregard for underwriting standards, and the "insurance" on the securities (derivatives bets) were a HUGE part of the problem. You see, when you buy car insurance or house insurance, the company selling the policy MUST be capitalized. ...more This means that in the event of a claim, the money is there to cover it.
With a poster child for all that was wrong with the crisis like AIG, not one cent of the "insurance" policies they issued were properly capitalized. In case you missed it, let me repeat it: NOT ONE RED CENT OF THE "INSURANCE" THEY ISSUED WAS CAPIIALIZED.
Stay ignorant, and keep blaming the homeowners...
Were it not for the way fiscal institutions lobbied for the 1936 laws to be changed during the last thirty years, none of the shenanigans would have been possible. Housing would not have been rampantly speculated upon, and securitization of mortgages into the derivatives market would not have occurred.
The final resting place for the blame lies with the "free marketeers" (fiscal anarchists) who redefined a system which functioned quite well for at least sixty years until they ****** with it. Without their modifications to the "free market", none of it would have been possible.
Unfortunately you're dead wrong about the payment reality. The reality set in when the majority of previously affordable mortgage is based on an adjustable rate had their monthly payments go sky high after Alan Greenspan raised interest rates 16 times in less than two years. It was his action and his action alone which lit the fuse ...more on the bomb.
Were did not for greenspan's actions in the last 2 years he held office, easily 60 percent of those mortgages would not have imploded. It was also "The Maestro" who encourage people to get adjustable rate mortgages in the first place.
Attempt to deflect fault all you want, but the blame lies with the "freemarketeers", a.k.a. fiscal anarchists.
Absolutely true. I think that history will judge Greenspan,once untouchable, very poorly.
BUT, I'm sure someone got the point...
You're the ones with the guns, And we've seen the instable behavior you people are capable of.
By philathome
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In a dramatic twist, Phil transitions from racism to a more subtle accusation.
doesn't change the facts.
You think you aren't simple, but the sad fact is you are.
And by the way the answer is still... NO NO NO NO NO!
It didn't matter to them because no matter what due to securitization they had NO responsibility for the life of the loan, nor did they have the long term skin in the game to make sure the loan was proper.
You don't understand the grift, and you are part of the problem.
Attorney General Eric Holder in an interview on the Tom Joyner radio show
“I’m still enjoying what I’m doing, there’s still work to be done. I’m still the President’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy. So we’ll see,”
OMG PHIL THAT WAS DOG WHISTLE IF I EVER HEARD IT... WHAT A RACIST!
Hint, it rhymes with smillratblome.
I still blame the ones who defaulted for the problem.
“Why ...more can’t you give it time? Well, the answer is they don’t want anybody to see it. That’s the only explanation,” Bloomberg said.
My fear is that he may be serious. That would be sad and somewhat concerning.
What a great leader she will be missed.
MSNBC Ad: Kids Don't Belong To Their Parents, Kids Belong To Communities
In an promo spot, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says:
"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 of “These are our children.” So part of it is we ...more 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. Once it’s everyone’s responsibility and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments."
As to the topic of this thread: Sequester is a good thing, it's showing that nothing of substance is being cut, just some things to make us, the taxpayers feel the pinch and make Barry Soetoro look like He truly cares. Another scam perpetrated by the Demokratz. They can't allow ...more spending cuts, it goes against their position of bigger and bigger government.
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Budget: 41% Increase in Income Taxes
obama released his long-delayed budget blueprint. Arriving more than two months after the statutory deadline, the budget contains a mix of increased spending, higher taxes and very little real deficit reduction. The White House is quick to argue that the increased taxes fall only on the wealthy, by limiting deductions and credits. The budget document itself, however, shows personal incomes taxes ...more soaring 41%, as a share of the economy, over the next decade.
In others words, the government will take 41% more out of personal income ...more than it did last year. This isn't some "shared sacrifice" to whittle down the deficit or the overall debt, either. Even with the government taking so much more of the economy in taxes, spending will still outpace revenue collection.
A Senate Budget Committee analysis of President Barack Obama’s newly released budget says the plan achieves just $119 billion in net deficit reduction, not the $1.8 trillion the White House claims. The analysis finds that Obama’s budget would generate $8.2 trillion in new debt, increasing total U.S. debt to $25.4 trillion over the next decade.
Lord Help Us!
reality first has two but really only one since it was a double post.
Do you ever slow down long enough to see how you sound to the rest of us?
just wondering?
others have different ones do you really think all that oil is organic...lol
Thomas Gold, a respected astronomer and professor emeritus at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, has held for years that oil is actually a renewable, primordial syrup continually manufactured by the Earth under ultra hot conditions and tremendous pressures. As this substance migrates toward the surface, it is attacked by bacteria, making it appear ...more to have an organic origin dating back to the dinosaurs, he says.
All of which has led some scientists to a radical theory: Eugene Island is rapidly refilling itself, perhaps from some continuous source miles below the Earth's surface. That, they say, raises the tantalizing possibility that oil may not be the limited resource it is assumed to be.
More recently, Forbes presented a similar discussion. In 2008 it reported a group of Russian and Ukrainian scientists say that oil and gas don't come from fossils; they're synthesized deep within the earth's mantle by heat, pressure, and other purely chemical means, before gradually rising to the surface. Under the so-called abiotic theory of oil, finding all the energy we need is just a matter of looking beyond the traditional basins where fossils might have accumulated.
Yes the "abiotic" theory of oil was first proposed by Soviet scientists almost a century ago. The theory stipulates that calcium carbonate (limestone) subducted into the mantle by plate tectonics reacts with iron and produces crude oil. The oceans are also a "carbon sink", and absorb most of CO2 as it dissolves into solution from the atmosphere to create carbonic ...more acid, thus reducing the amount of carbonate molecules in the seawater. For reference, dinosaurs DO NOT comprise most of the oil we have burned the last century. Not old enough. Most of the Saudi Arabian crude is from deposits laid down during the Permian-Triassic extinction 250 million years ago and it's base is from the Carboniferous period of about 320 million years ago. The Jurassic limestone which comprises the reservoir was placed there via plate tectonics. Crustal geology proves this just as it proves the iridium KT boundary for the most recent mass extinction in Earth's history.
Though the limestone may be "dead", the creatures it is composed of were not at one time. Some oil is created by iron oxide and carbonate reactions to create hydrocarbons via plate tectonics. Some oil is created by non-decaying organic matter. Haven't you ever noticed a fern in a lump of coal?
It was actually SOVIET scientists that first showed anoxic non-decaying organic matter wasn't the only way to create crude oil. And, they did it under laboratory conditions using iron, which we have ALOT of on this planet.
The fact which remains is that the burning of carbon is acidifying the ocean at an alarming rate, and corals as well as phytoplankton which fix the vast majority of carbon dioxide in a basic ocean are either deformed, or dying. To clarify things via the "lowest common denominator", when the carbon sink which is the worlds oceans absorbs enough carbon dioxide to drop below a pH of 8, the crustaceans, mollusks, phytoplankton, and other organisms that depend on carbonate for their shells will not be able to form them. We will lose a massive portion of our foodstock in the process. And methane? Once the tundra, and the oceans warm it will be released in higher and higher quantities. It's a "greenhouse gas" which has more than twenty times the ability to trap heat.
You should really check out NOAA's page about ocean acidification. The lower the pH of the ocean, the closer it is to becoming anoxic. The closer it is to anoxic, the closer a repeat of the Permian extinction becomes.
There's your scholastic lesson for the day.
Democrats are Blocking Resolution to Honor Lady Thatcher
One would naturally think it impossible that anyone would hesitate – even for an instant – to honor the woman who tackled communism head on as prime minister of Great Britain. Lady Margaret Thatcher was a principled politician who helped to foster the special relationship between Great Britain and the United States that we all benefit from today.
A Senate resolution to honor Lady Thatcher was ...more supposed to pass last night. However, per well placed sources on the Hill, Democrats have a hold on the resolution.
To refuse to honor a woman of such great historical and political significance, who was deeply loyal to the United States, is petty and shameful. One truly has to wonder, what is it about Lady Thatcher that gives them pause? Her unfaltering commitment to freedom? More likely the way she fought for individual liberty and limited government?
She is disliked by the left for exactly the same reasons she is adored by those who also love Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Tom Cruz
Thatcherism’s economic program was one of austerity, privatization, and aggressive union-busting. In the mid-1980s, Thatcher’s government said it would shut down 20 coal mines across Great Britain, costing some 20,000 ...more miners their livelihoods. When the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) responded by going on strike, the government dug in its heels and waged a lengthy campaign to break the power of one of Great Britain’s largest unions.
Over Thatcher’s 11 years as prime minister, the Tory government pursued an aggressive campaign of privatization and market liberalization. Writing for the Guardian, Richard Seymour notes that within four years, “the government sold off Jaguar, British Telecom, the remainder of Cable & Wireless and British Aerospace, Britoil and British Gas.” British Steel and British Petroleum were soon added to the list. In 1989, Thatcher also privatized 10 water supply companies.
“There’s no such thing as society,” Thatcher famously said in 1987. “There are individual men and women and there are families.” Perhaps the definitive expression of Thatcherite morality, that one statement repudiated any policy that carried even a whiff of collectivism, and reflected Thatcher’s faith in both old-fashioned family values and free market individualism.
Though Thatcher’s government was formally opposed to apartheid in South Africa, she also dismissed South African civil rights leader (and future South African president) Nelson Mandela as a terrorist and the anti-apartheid African National Congress as a “typical terrorist organization.”
Recently released documents show that Margaret Thatcher had been planning even more right-wing reforms for the United Kingdom. Her 1982 cabinet planned to eradicate the National Health Service, the United Kingdom’s socialized health care provider and the centerpiece of British social democracy. Thatcher’s plans also included “introducing education vouchers, ending the state funding of higher education, freezing welfare benefits and an insurance-based health service,” according to The Guardian.
The last gasp for relevance by a bunch of angry, middle-aged, high school dropouts
Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story
The dead babies. The exploited women. The racism. The numerous governmental failures. It is thoroughly newsworthy.
The grand jury report in the case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, is among the most horrifying I've read. "This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean ...more is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy - and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors," it states. "The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels - and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths."
Charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, Dr. Gosnell is now standing trial in a Philadelphia courtroom. An NBC affiliate's coverage includes testimony as grisly as you'd expect. "An unlicensed medical school graduate delivered graphic testimony about the chaos at a Philadelphia clinic where he helped perform late-term abortions," the channel reports. "Stephen Massof described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, 'literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body.' He testified that at times, when women were given medicine to speed up their deliveries, 'it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place.'"
One former employee described hearing a baby screaming after it was delivered during an abortion procedure. "I can't describe it. It sounded like a little alien," she testified. Said the Philadelphia Inquirer in its coverage, "Prosecutors have cited the dozens of jars of severed baby feet as an example of Gosnell's idiosyncratic and illegal practice of providing abortions for cash to poor women pregnant longer than the 24-week cutoff for legal abortions in Pennsylvania."
Until Thursday, I wasn't aware of this story. It has generated sparse coverage in the national media, and while it's been mentioned in RSS feeds to which I subscribe, I skip past most news items. I still consume a tremendous amount of journalism. Yet had I been asked at a trivia night about the identity of Kermit Gosnell, I would've been stumped and helplessly guessed a green Muppet. Then I saw Kirsten Power's USA Today column. She makes a powerful, persuasive case that the Gosnell trial ought to be getting a lot more attention in the national press than it is getting.
“Had Kermit Gosnell killed dogs, HLN would be giving it wall to wall coverage as they do all sorts of sensational trials. Nancy Grace would be in full outrage mode every night.”Last night on twitter, Dave Weigel of Slate noted he was just hearing from twitterers about the gruesome trial of Kermit Gosnell. Those who care about the story owe a tremendous debt to Kirsten Powers taking to the pages of USA Today to write about it.
The press now sees only ideology. If humans are brutally killed that is an embarrassment to their ideology.
Phil it seems clear your ideology as well trumps human life and you seem to think the infanticide should continue.
THE POINT WAS...
the Gosnell trial ought to be getting a lot more attention in the national press than it is getting.
While discussing the lack of Media Coverage of the trail of Dr Kermit Gosnell, who is charged with murdering seven newborn infants Dana Pierino pointed to Breitbart News' coverage for exposing the media blackout.
Well Done!
Instead of encouraging more restrictions on reproductive rights, Hogue said, the Gosnell trial should serve as a warning about the consequences of denying women access to safe and affordable abortion care.
"This is exactly what happens when you place undue restrictions ...more and you try to shame women to keep them from exercising their constitutional right to safe and legal abortions. You make them victims to people like Gosnell, because in their desperation they’ll turn anywhere. You want to drive people like Gosnell out of business? Then you actually support medical facilities and the right of women to safe and legal abortion."
what is important is the principles you take with you into the future.we need to support our daughters and sisters in there time of need. it takes a little bit of self sacrifice and shared personal responsibility.didn't you read the article I posted? for me its not ok to keep promoting a lie to hide behind in order to not admit the biggest mistake i ever made. let go of this belief you know ...more is not true. just be honest with yourself and know god forgives. we must try and save others the pain.
Witch Hazel, on this point I agree with you. While I disapprove of abortion, I feel that making it illegal would result in people seeking it out anyway and more than likely in a less than safe manner. Prohibition almost never works.
I did read your article Erin and I did shed tears.How horrible a thing to call it "reproductive rights" its barbaric and so so cold.
What if Gosnell Had Used an AR-15?
Thanks to conservative new media, the Kermit Gosnell trial is finally part of the national dialog. But before the mainstream press got around to doing their job, ten congressmen took to the floor of the House to protest the lack of media attention being paid to the horrifying story. One such congressman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), contrasted the abortionist's trial to another ongoing narrative that the media covers obsessively: gun control. “If ...more Dr. Gosnell had walked into a nursery and shot seven infants with an AR-15, it would be national news and the subject of presidential hand-wringing,” said Smith
On Tuesday, the US Senate finally passed a resolution to honor recently deceased former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) had been holding up the resolution over the resolution’s word choice. Fighting him on that was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Menendez was reportedly offended by McConnell’s language, which Menendez thought insulted other ...more countries. McConnell, meanwhile, reportedly felt that Menendez wanted to water down the resolution to a very basic play-by-play of Thatcher’s life, ignoring the Falklands Island dispute and Thatcher’s role in the deployment of a nuclear deterrent in Europe. One GOP aide told The Hill, “The Democratic resolution attempts to black out history,” and said that the Democrats attempted to remove language quoting Thatcher as stating, “all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail.”
Yes the "abiotic" theory of oil was first proposed by Soviet scientists about a century ago. The hypothesis stipulates that calcium carbonate (limestone) subducted into the mantle by plate tectonics reacts with iron and produces crude oil. Also, lest we forget, the oceans are a "carbon sink", and absorb much of the CO2 created on the planet, as it dissolves into solution from the atmosphere to create carbonic acid, thus reducing the amount ...more of carbonate molecules in the seawater. For reference, dinosaurs DO NOT comprise most of the oil we have burned the last century. Not old enough. Most of the Saudi Arabian crude is from deposits laid down during the Permian-Triassic extinction 250 million years ago and it's base is from the Carboniferous period of about 320 million years ago. Why do you think they call the "Permian deposits"? There's the Permian Basin of Texas, right here in the good ol' USA. The Jurassic limestone which comprises the Saudi reservoir was actually placed there via plate tectonics. Crustal geology proves this just as it proves the iridium KT boundary for the most recent mass extinction in Earth's history.
Though the limestone may be "dead", the creatures it is composed of were not at one time. Some oil is created by iron oxide and carbonate reactions to create hydrocarbons via plate tectonics. Some oil is created by non-decaying organic matter. Haven't you ever noticed a fern in a lump of coal?
It was actually SOVIET scientists that first showed anoxic non-decaying organic matter wasn't the only way to create crude oil. And, they did it under laboratory conditions using calcium carbonate (limestone) and iron thus making the hypothesis theory. BTW, the latter (iron) we have ALOT of on this planet.
The fact which remains is that the burning of carbon is acidifying the ocean at an alarming rate, and corals as well as phytoplankton which fix the vast majority of carbon dioxide in a basic ocean are either deformed, or dying. To clarify things via the "lowest common denominator", when the carbon sink which is the worlds oceans absorbs enough carbon dioxide to drop below a pH of 8, the crustaceans, mollusks, phytoplankton, and other organisms that depend on carbonate for their shells will not be able to form them. We will lose a massive portion of our foodstock in the process. And methane? Once the tundra, and the oceans warm it will be released in higher and higher quantities. It's a "greenhouse gas" which has more than twenty times the ability to trap heat.
You should really check out NOAA's page about ocean acidification. The lower the pH of the ocean, the closer it is to becoming anoxic. The closer it is to anoxic, the closer a repeat of the Permian extinction becomes.
There's your scholastic lesson for the day.
Monday, Regal Entertainment Group, the largest movie theatre chain in the country, announced that thousands of employees will have their work hours cut as a direct result of the added cost of the new ObamaCare mandates that become effective later this year.
. Just like he knows the real reason they want to repel the second amendment it so they can further infringe on your rights with no fear of reprisal
"It appears that Regal entertainment is not only denying their employees access to health care, they're cutting their hours so the employees can't afford it on their own"
We told you this would happen. You and the OWS crowd are NOT going to extort from us what you ...more feel is yours. Which brings us to the real reason you want the guns!
I mean all rational sane seriousness, how many cars do you really need? How many houses do you really need? The American corporate structure has become the poster child for avarice greed gluttony and any other "mortal sin" which escapes my memory at this time.
they run an incredibly successful business design, based on egalitarian democracy, not totalitarian dictatorship. everytime I read your dribble, I'm reminded of the English aristocracy this country rebelled against to establish itself.
For Regal not to be profitable with the price is the charge is ludicrous.
In truth be told, For decades are management at the family business managed to provide everyone with health benefits regardless. Even when we were far smaller than we are now. Somehow I doubt the employees or now forced to suffer are the ...more problem with the company.
And yes, I do stay home instead of going out to the movies. That wasn't the point, and as usual you missed it. The point was is that the people whose hours, and compensation is being slashed are not responsible for how the company is run, or the pricing structure. But, as usual in American Kleptotocracy those who are responsible use their power and ...more position to avoid the kind of sacrifices they force others to make.
Are you really so old, and inflexible?
With the failure of the Democrats’ attempt to exploit the Newtown school shooting to press forward gun control measures, President Obama took to the microphones along with the relatives of Sandy Hook victims to demonize his opposition. This, of course, was his strategy all along: knowing that he did not have 60 votes in the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass his gun control legislation, he pressed forward anyway, hoping to paint ...more Republicans as intransigent, immoral tools of the gun lobby who don’t care about dead children. After demonizing Republicans, Obama hopes, he can press Americans into voting Democrats back into power in the House of Representatives.
It was glorious to watch on C-Span, Did anyone see Feinstein , I about wet my pants watching her seething and almost incapable of making sentences.
It's a great day in America.
I am sure this will not be the end of this war, but we have won this battle.
We will win the war, the left just doesn't know it yet. Proud to be an American
'90%" was a failed campaign by proponents of gun control.
Sorry bf, but your existence in your test tube life catering to aristocrats leaves you biased and out of touch with the rest of society who live outside this "playground".
Willful blindness is one thing. Being legally blind from a mental standpoint in the information age is inexcusable.
I have been looking at these pictures for hours yet they did not make the news all night what are they waiting for. I guess the spin doctors are still re writing history
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 17, 2013
UPDATE: FBI briefing on Boston bombings postponed. The FBI said it “needs more time to prepare” before speaking to the media. Struggling to get their narrative straight in the aftermath of ...more numerous men with backpacks being identified?
Photos collated on the 4chan website show numerous images of suspicious individuals wearing large backpacks present at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Three of the men appear to be Arab or Middle Eastern in appearance,
The images show the men looking away from the marathon runners, talking on cellphones and running from the scene immediately after the blast.
Don't be too surprised if we find out the culprits were our own.
The final prosecution witness against Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor on trial for the capital murder of seven babies and one adult patient, was Kareema Cross, a former employee of Gosnell's. Thursday Cross testified that she saw ten babies breathe before Gosnell killed them.
Absolutely disgusting and evil !
Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev had a link on his youtube to videos connected to Islamic terrorism.
Michael Moore: 'Two Americans Bomb Boston Marathon ... RestOfWorldYouAreSafeNow"
Filmmaker Michael Moore has now sounded off on the ongoing situation surrounding suspected Boston Marathon bombers and Muslim terrorists Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan. Naturally, he blames America:
The sad part is this wasn't a bad act by a liberal; radical Muslims are as diametrically opposite from liberalism (at least the classic definition of liberalism) as one can get, yet liberals rush to defend and excuse the actions of jihadis at every turn.
The only thing radical Islamists have in common with American liberals is a deep-seated hatred of the United States.
Why is so hard for you to admit that there are radicals MUSLIMS that are waging war against our country? There's a long list of attacks and attempted attacks thwarted here, 2 world trade center bombings for starters sneaker bomber on a plane, underwear bomber, these two pieces of excrement in Boston. Come on, don't you see a pattern here?! Are you incapable of seeing the truth? Could you also hate the USA with the same passion? HMMM
Where are ...more the "peaceful" followers of Muhammed? Why haven't they denounced terrorism? The silence is deafening.
Again I ask, what common sense solution would have prevented Newtown? Then answer is none. You can't prevent crazy.
You will find that since the beginning of the last century, and even beforehand, groups and individuals have been committing atrocities in the name of whatever they irrationally believe in. Yiou will also find that almost no country is immune to such acts. Be it "God" (the vast majority of the time), or personal agenda terrorism is nothing new. Heck, through the course of the '70's we averaged at least three ...more acts a year, and sometimes more. From the "Mad Bomber", to airplane bombings, Potere Operaio, Black September, the Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers, the IRA, Iranians, Palestinians, and religious zealots through the latter decades of the last century people across the globe have used violence to make their voices heard.
You may also enjoy the list of assassinations throughout History as well...
The RADICAL Muslims have declared war on us in case you haven't noticed.
Phil your screed posted above seems to be hate filled, you've consistantly proven that it's the left that has no tolerance for differing opinions.
You have more Democrats around you than I do here in Fla. So you might like it better if you moved to The Villages. Just think 90,000 Republicans; and the paper, Sun TV channel and radio are all owned by one family who watch every word just to make sure The Republican word is out there. And there are plenty of Long ...more Islanders living there.
Like you said Dan Facts are Facts!
The enemy is here and the fact that we have the 2nd amendment might just save your life one day.
I was just reading that one of the Marathon bombers You Tube links showed an hour-long speech by an Islamic teacher called Shaykh Feiz Mohammed, while other videos are labled “Terrorists” and “Islam”.
The ...more radical cleric, encouraged his followers to become martyrs for Islam.
He said: “Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid.” This as more than 1,000 FBI operatives were working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.
A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were ...more not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google.
“They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members
The ...more radical cleric, encouraged his followers to become martyrs for Islam.
Guess you missed that post
"The Boston bombing suspects engaged in a deadly firefight with police last week, possessing six bombs, handguns, a rifle and more than 250 rounds of ammunition. But the Tsarnaev brothers did not have proper licenses to possess the firearms, according to the Cambridge Police Department -- a revelation that comes just days after the Senate voted against strengthening and expanding background ...more checks for gun sales.
Cambridge Police Department spokesman Dan Riviello told The Huffington Post that neither Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, nor Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, appeared to have a license to own a handgun.
"The younger brother could not have applied as he is not 21 years of age and the older brother did not have a license to carry and we have no record of him ever applying," Riviello said."
"Firstly, let’s just establish how insanely stupid your argument is. The very definition of a criminal is someone who breaks the law and commits crime. Criminals break all kinds of laws. They kill, steal, rape, assault, traffic guns or people, drive too fast in the slow lane, drive too slow in the fast lane, don’t register their car on time, under report on their taxes, and the list goes ...more on and on and on. If every time we wanted to write a law to curb and discourage a destructive behavior someone said “But-but, criminals don’t follow laws anyway, so why do we need a law against rape?” you know what we’d have? A society with no laws whatsoever."
Pnow's logic is not broken, you are simply incapable of critical thought because you are blinded by the ideology of studpidity!
Oh yeah, the whole situation is a freakin' laugh riot. Let's just continue with the status quo because the criminals don't pay attention to the laws. No sense in going after the criminals who sold or gave the weapons to the Tsarnaevs either, right Cap? No sense in making every purchaser go through a background check because if they really want one they can go through a licensed dealer. Do you really find some warped logic in requiring a background check ...more depending on the credentials of the seller rather than the buyer? Please explain.
Seems like a few people here don't get it...
"As society becomes more civilized, Government—national, State and local government—is called on to assume more obligations to its citizens. The privileges of membership in a civilized society have vastly increased in modern times. But I am afraid we have many who still do not recognize their advantages and want to avoid paying their dues."
~ ...more Franklin D. Roosevelt
BOOM, RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
How about everyone has a box on their drivers license that if checked off means they have passed the de facto background check and are clear to buy a weapon.This would be on everyones DL and not necessarily mean they are looking to buy a weapon.
If they chose they would have to show this to purchase a gun but never have to ...more fill out a form or have a record of the purchase.no finger prints no copy of the D.L. required
I think that would make our side happy since we do not trust the government and do not want a Humvee showing up at our door at any given moment to confiscate our 2nd amendment rights. and if your side is being truthful and you just wants background checks to make sure felons and crazy people have less access to guns it should make you happy as well...
So why do I have this feeling this soulution wouldn't make you happy at all.
The background check for HazMat is thorough for a reason, and so should making sure someone is responsible enough to own a gun. Seems to me they are both equally as dangerous, and have similar potential for harm.
Now we have police forces a standing military and even grocery stores. Hunting is no longer required for survival, nor is a militia. And truth be told we kept accurate information on storehouses of weapons and ammunition throughout the Revolutionary War and during the 19th century. Scribe and ...more parchment, the old fashioned database. There's no freedom living in paranoid fear a military coup either...
Do you find government restriction of your personal liberty's funny? The seat belt law is unconstitutional and a perfect example of how the gun restriction will work.
I am old enough to remember with clarity how outraged the public was (At least the men) about the notion of the government mandating that you would have to use a seat belt while driving or be fined.
They passed the law but did not enforce it for about 5 years. Even ...more the cops (Who were mostly men back then) Thought it was ridiculous and felt embarrassed to enforce.Then slowly they rolled it out as the next generation did not even realize that they lost more of there free will.
At first you will remember they could only give you a seat belt ticket if you were stopped for something else, now they will stop you just for not wearing the seatbelt and proudly hand you a summons.
It will be the same with guns, When people like Phil get there way,
It's inconvenint for the progressive movment that some of us still remember America!
Once we are dead you will be able to slowly erode our freedoms even more, as you create the Homogenized, Sterile, Light Brown, Androgynous, Artiest, No Privacy or Property Rights world you think you want.
Too bad he cant get past the S.H.P ombudsman. He must have agreed with you Dan but all the red ink makes it hard to know for sure.
...more As to the radicalization of the Boston bombers, look to the internet activity of the older brother, hate filled speeches by a cleric, encouragement to become a martyr, jihad against the west. His visit to russia and his attendance at a mosque run by a jihad preeching imam. Could he have been radicalized by going to school in Boston surrounded by America hating liberal teachers and professors, no, couldn't be that.
Right on point! I think we all know the answer to that is a big YES!
Terrorists succeed beyond their dreams when jackasses like you respond with such stupidity.
QUESTION: Does the President support legislation allowing states to require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes? And if that were to pass, would he sign that into law?
JAY CARNEY: We believe that the Marketplace Fairness Act will level the playing field for local small business retailers who are undercut every day by out-of state on line companies. Today, while local small business retailers follow ...more the law and collect sales taxes from customers who make purchases in their stores, many big business on line and catalogue retailers do not collect the same taxes. This puts local neighborhood-based small businesses at a disadvantage to big, out-of-state, online companies. And because these out-of-state companies are able to cut corners and play by a different set of rules, cities and states lose out on funding for K-12 education, police and fire protection, access to affordable health care and funding for roads and bridges.
YOU WANT TO REALLY LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD ? THAN STOP THE B.S. AND GO TO A FEDERAL CONSUMMATION VAT TAX AND DITCH THE REST OF THE TAX CODE! SIMPLE FAIR AND UNDERSTANDABLE!
and before MR Z starts his rant about this
FOOD AND BASIC NECESSITY'S SHOULD BE EXEMPT TO PROTECT THE POOR! PRETTY SIMPLE WAY TO FIX EVERYTHING. LOOK INTO IT PEOPLE
sorry for yelling but we need a fair understandable tax code!
I don't think this is something I would rant about that thanks for the credit. I remember being in Pennsylvania and plopping down 3 20 dollar bills for a $59.99 pair of Nikes. The change was one penny.
Try that here. I think that if they're going to tax necessities, then that means the state doesn't consider them such and in such case we should all be allowed to run about naked as we please.
Kabot: Throne-Holst Contributions Violated New York State Election Law
You are absolutely right on, Razza. I would never have voted for throne-holst before Kabot jumped in. I visit these boards infrequently because they are over run by right wing zealots and it is certainly no surprise that they support this failed former supervisor. I wish ...more there were another choice - a progressive choice - but I am quite certain Anna will beat Linda and that will have to suffice for now." Oct 20, 11 9:55 PM
Gregor, Town Board Battle Over New Leaf Pickup Program
Who cares. Get over it" Oct 20, 11 9:56 PM
Lawmakers Break Ground On Bridgehampton Sidewalk Project
Oh no, government spending money to create jobs and improve lives! Quick, taepartiers, don't miss an opportunity to post your typical b s " Oct 21, 11 6:49 PM
and it goes on and on from there.seems tho art a bit loony yourself.
Multiple terrorist plots by RADICAL Muslims have been discovered and thwarted. FACT
RADICAL Muslims preach hatred and jihad (holy war) against the USA, FACT
Why does the left refuse to face the FACT that there is a war being waged against us?
How many innocent lives have been destroyed, or ended for the war on "radical muslims"?
Far too many. Don't mind breaking a few eggs, unless you're the egg in question, right?
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 ...more and President Obama failed to heed the warnings or give the Defense Department the authority to respond to such an attack.
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
So Now what Phil ? Since obama lied about the attack and covered it up until after the election do we get a recall election? Will the republicans ask for obama's resignation? Who will be indicted for dereliction of duty? Did obama order the military to stand down when Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were heroically defending the consulate and saving lives? Why not articles of impeachment? Richard Nixon resigned over a botched burglary where no one died! your boy should start packing his bags baby
As to credibility, you have quoted from the Huffington Post, Daily Kos and the grandmother of all propoganda rags the New York Times, no credibility for you!
As to profiling: The majority of terrorism has beem committed ...more by middle eastern men between the ages of 20 and 35, profile that demographic. If the terrorists were , lets say, men between 40 and 60 of Norwegian descent, profile them. If the bombers were Hare Krishnas, profile them, Austrian goat herders, profile them. See how it works? So simple even a liberal can do it.
It is one thing for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be seen on security camera videos placing one of the bombs that killed three people at last week's Boston Marathon. But now he's really crossed a line.
Tsarnaev is telling investigators he and his brother were motivated by religion to plot their carnage, media reports citing anonymous federal sources say.
Radical Islam. It's a label banned by the obama administration. ...more National Islamic groups say it doesn't belong in conversations about terrorism.
Tsarnaev didn't get the memo.
NY Times:
Recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, Dzhokhar told investigators from his hospital bed that he and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev were driven by religious fervor and took their instructions from al-Qaida's Inspire magazine,
NBC News reports. Anger at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fueled their rage, the
Washington Post reports.
That motivation echoes justifications offered by Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan for the Fort Hood shooting spree that killed 13 people and Faisal Shahzad's sentencing rant about his attempt to bomb Times Square in 2010.
"The crusading U.S. and NATO forces who have occupied the Muslim lands under the pretext of democracy and freedom for the last nine years and are saying with their mouths that they are fighting terrorism, I say to them, we don't accept your democracy nor your freedom, because we already have Sharia law and freedom," Shahzad told the court. "Furthermore, brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun. Consider me only a first droplet of the flood that will follow me."
Despite this candor from terrorists, the obama administration and Islamic groups have argued that referring to terrorists' religious motivations somehow grants them religious legitimacy.
f only Americans reacted the same way to the actual threats that exist in their country. There's something quite fitting and ironic about the fact that the Boston freak-out happened in the same week the Senate blocked consideration of a gun control bill that would have strengthened background checks for potential buyers. Even though this reform is supported by more than 90% of Americans, and even though 56 out of 100 senators voted in favour of it, the ...more Republican minority prevented even a vote from being held on the bill because it would have allegedly violated the second amendment rights of "law-abiding Americans".
So for those of you keeping score at home – locking down an American city: a proper reaction to the threat from one terrorist. A background check to prevent criminals or those with mental illness from purchasing guns: a dastardly attack on civil liberties. All of this would be almost darkly comic if not for the fact that more Americans will die needlessly as a result. Already, more than 30,000 Americans die in gun violence every year (compared to the 17 who died last year in terrorist attacks).
What makes US gun violence so particularly horrifying is how routine and mundane it has become. After the massacre of 20 kindergartners in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, millions of Americans began to take greater notice of the threat from gun violence. Yet since then, the daily carnage that guns produce has continued unabated and often unnoticed.
The same day of the marathon bombing in Boston, 11 Americans were murdered by guns. The pregnant Breshauna Jackson was killed in Dallas, allegedly by her boyfriend. In Richmond, California, James Tucker III was shot and killed while riding his bicycle – assailants unknown. Nigel Hardy, a 13-year-old boy in Palmdale, California, who was being bullied in school, took his own life. He used the gun that his father kept at home. And in Brooklyn, New York, an off-duty police officer used her department-issued Glock 9mm handgun to kill herself, her boyfriend and her one-year old child.
At the same time that investigators were in the midst of a high-profile manhunt for the marathon bombers that ended on Friday evening, 38 more Americans – with little fanfare – died from gun violence. One was a 22-year old resident of Boston. They are a tiny percentage of the 3,531 Americans killed by guns in the past four months – a total that surpasses the number of Americans who died on 9/11 and is one fewer than the number of US soldiers who lost their lives in combat operations in Iraq. Yet, none of this daily violence was considered urgent enough to motivate Congress to impose a mild, commonsense restriction on gun purchasers.
90 percent of 300 million plus Citizens really support expanded ...more or Universal Background Checks? That would be an astounding number in a Nation that hasn’t been so polarized and divided since the Civil War Era.
Ok so 90 percent of the population supporting the concept is quite a stretch, unbelievable actually, thats 9 out 0f 10 people!
Nine out of ten Americans wouldn’t agree if it was partly sunny or partly cloudy on any given day. In fact, its a flat out lie, as a Gallup Poll on Monday, just 48 hours before debate in the Senate on the Gun Control Package showed that only 4 % of the Public felt that Gun Control as an issue was the “most important issue facing the Country”. The topic ranked as the ninth “most important issue” in the poll, with issues like the Economy, Jobs, the Federal Deficit, Debt, Immigration and the like all ranking higher as important to American voters.
Well, maybe they meant 90 percent of poll respondents then?
And that in fact is significantly more likely to be accurate, but it is totally dependent on the way the poll questions were worded, as a well known and documented concept known as selection bias comes into play, as does sampling size.
Lets look at two differently worded examples of the same question. We will use the Expanded or “Universal Background Checks” issue as the subject for obvious reasons.
Here’s how the question is worded when the poll is paid for by a particular anti rights group or even media outlet that commissions the polling company to produce the results they seek.
1) In order to prevent criminals, terrorists and the mentally deranged from easily obtaining firearms, do you support or oppose Legislation that requires background checks be completed on every person that attempts to acquire a firearm?
Worded that way it should be no surprise, and its not at all newsworthy that the answers would be overwhelmingly in support of such a law, perhaps even the 90 % range of support the President, Anti-Gun Groups and their shills in the media have been claiming.
Because even those that fall squarely on the side of support for Gun Rights, as well as the “fence sitters” and “FUDS” that are really ambivalent about the topic still want to keep bad people from doing bad things.
But lets look at the same question, worded differently, and in such a way that is actually representative of what the defeated Manchin-Toomey Amendment would have made law.
1) In an effort to make it more difficult for criminals, the mentally ill and possibly terrorists from obtaining weapons, do you support or oppose Legislation that would require mandatory background checks for every person attempting to acquire a firearm , even during private sales, trades or transfers amongst people that are well known to each other, such as co-workers, distant relatives, long time neighbors and or friends, even though numerous studies have shown that criminals most often obtain their weapons from black market sales and from theft then any other source ?
Worded that way, chances are better than good that you would see support for such a law plummet. For understandable reasons. Its instinctive to immediately recognize how ridiculous it would be to require that people submit to such a law, particularly when they have long established connections with the prospective purchaser or transferee, especially in light of the fact that criminals already acquire their weapons from sources that “universal background checks” would never apply to anyway.
By the way, the industry jargon for the careful wording of poll questions to get the desired answers to support a pre-ordained, paid for result is known as “push polling”.
That is why polls such as those paid for and marketed (really a self congratulatory circle jerk) by Anti Gun Groups like MAIG (Mayors Against Illegal Guns), a poll that claimed that 2/3rds majority of NRA Members supported Universal Background Checks are so suspect.
Selection Bias.
The NRA doesn’t publish or release the membership information, so how can MAIG be reasonably certain that those polled actually were in fact NRA Members ? They CANT!
Sampling Size.
The MAIG Poll about NRA Member Support for Background Checks was conducted on less then 1,000 people, only half of which claimed they were “current or past NRA members” by their own admission. The NRA has somewhere between 4 and 5 million members. Even if every single one of the 1000 or so people surveyed were provably actual current or former NRA members that affirmed support for expanded background checks, that would mean that MAIG’s poll was relying on the answers of less then 0.0002% of the total membership, then marketing it to the gullible public and the media as representative of “an overwhelming majority”.
Then there’s the polling company who is hired to conduct the poll to consider. In MAIG’s /NRA Poll, that company would be “The Word Doctor” owned by Frank Luntz, a company that has been censured in the past by the (professional group American Association for Public Opinion Research, of which Luntz was not a member, criticized Luntz for refusing to release poll data to support his claimed results “because of client confidentiality”. Diane Colasanto, who was president of the AAPOR at the time, said
“ It is simply wanting to know, How many people did you question? What were the questions? We understand the need for confidentiality, but once a pollster makes results public, the information needs to be public.
People need to be able to evaluate whether it was sound research or their methodology and who openly brag in the advertising of their services on their website that
“Our creative team is made up of expert wordsmiths that know market research as well as they know language. And here is what matters most for you: as a result, you get language that is tailored specifically to shift support towards your issue.”
The 90 percent support for Expanded Background Checks is a myth, nothing more, a creation; like every other one of the talking points and so called “facts” of the Anti Gun left.
Maybe that’s why they and the President were so shocked and angry at the results of Wednesdays Vote, they believe the validity of their own lies and presume that the American Public believes them as well.
Going on to say... you and your band of merry men with quality education where Superior? Phil works at a school and has stated "I've passed both background checks and mental competency tests"
Yet look at the 7 year old mentality in this from above :
Teabaggers know all about testicles.
By philathome (4897), Southampton ...more on Apr 24, 13 7:07 AM
Care to comment SPECIFICALLY about that post
Media Matters Ignores Gosnell Grand Jury to Defend Planned Parenthood
Media Matters for America accused Breitbart News and Rush Limbaugh of falsely accusing Planned Parenthood of hiding the horrific crimes at Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic. In doing so, they ignore grand jury testimony that Planned Parenthood did fail to report Gosnell to authorities.
The senior fellows at MMfA need to read and take a closer look at the grand ...more jury report. Dayle Steinberg, Planned Parenthood’s president and chief executive, said “women would sometimes come to Planned Parenthood for services after first visiting Gosnell’s West Philadelphia clinic, and would complain to staff about the conditions there.” The staff would encourage the women to report the clinic to the Department of Health (DOH).
Unfortunately, the article does not state why the women went to Planned Parenthood. The grand jury report said when a woman visited a nearby hospital after seeing Gosnell, it was because of a botched abortion and not for a regular wellness exam. The report also said Gosnell and his staff did not take any steps to hide what they were doing in their clinic.
While Planned Parenthood told women to report Gosnell to the DOH, as medical professionals, Planned Parenthood staff should have done the same thing. The Abortion Control Act “requires any doctor who treats a woman because of a complication arising from an abortion to make a report to DOH. Willful failure to do so constitutes ‘unprofessional conduct’ and subjects the treating doctor to sanctions by the Board of Medicine.”
The grand jury even noted the doctors at the Hospital of Pennsylvania (HUP) and Presbyterian Hospital should have reported Gosnell “because reporting a doctor who harms his patients and breaks the law is the right thing to do.”
The conditions of the clinic alone should have prompted Planned Parenthood to do something, especially since they ostensibly are focused on women’s health. The facility was filthy: countless witnesses told the grand jury about blood soaked recliners and medical tables, cats wondering about the place and relieving themselves in plants, baby feet in jars, and equipment that did not work. It was normal to see patients lying around, drugged up and waiting for their baby to be born.
Even if Planned Parenthood only knew of the filthy conditions, red flags should have gone off in their heads, and they should have stepped in for these women.
As for the abortionist,you are a disgrace to the human race.
Far too many. Don't mind breaking a few eggs, unless you're the egg in question, right?
Do the Crusades ring a bell? Or the Spanish Inquisition? How about witch hunts? Or maybe the destruction of pagan (Roman/Greek) temples, or the complete removal of their rights in the 6th century? How about Hypatia of Alexandria? Or the genocidal Italian explorer Christopher Columbus? Pizarro? Cortes?
How many lives have been ended by radical "Christians"?
At least fifteen centuries worth...
Why can't the left admit that there is minority of Muslims waginy holy war (jihad) agaist the USA? The facts are there but still the left wants to deflect attention from the reason for the attacks.
Your liberal public school indoctrination is starting to show around the edges, Genocidal Italian explorer Columbus. He came ...more here just to exterminate other races, got it , thanks.
" Liberal education"? At least I have an education of some sort. Your ignorance is ...more beyond showing through the edges. Should you get the chance you should pick up a few of Bartolommeo de las Casas' writings...
We are talking about your inability to face the fact the radical Islam seems to have declared war on the US. and the Muslim community in whole as well as the media, Phil and the POTUS seems incapable of admitting and denouncing that FACT! "
Seems the SHP maybe too! what is the problem with that statement MR. Editor
Dan Said " BLANK cares what happened 600 years ago? are you even in the same conversation? Sometimes I wonder,
We are talking about your inability to face the fact the radical Islam seems to have declared war on the US. and the Muslim community in whole as well as the media, Phil and the POTUS seems incapable of admitting and denouncing that FACT! "
Seems the SHP maybe too! what is the problem with that statement MR. Editor
And for reference, there is actually a website called "Islam Denounces Terrorism". They have spoken out repeatedly condemning violence.
You all just fail to listen.
By philathome (4920), Southampton on Apr 24, 13 7:16 AM
Huffpost said / Poll: Fox Most Believable; CNN Least Believable
A new poll taken by Huffpost/YouGov reports that of all six cable and broadcast news outlets, CNN ranked at the top of networks considered the least believable during the almost non-stop coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and the intense 5-day manhunt that followed. Fox News, on ...more the other hand, was ranked as most believable.
When asked how believable the news was on CNN during coverage of the Boston bombings, only 38% said it was "very" or "somewhat believable." MSNBC fared even worse at 35%. Fox News, however, beat all five of its cable and broadcast competitors with a 50% ranking. CBS came in second with 48%, NBC and ABC respectively earned 46% and 45%.
In the categories of "not very" or "not at all" believable," CNN was at the very bottom by a pretty large margin. While the other five networks were all huddled between 13% and 16%, CNN was all by itself at 21%.
There is just no question that this is devastating news for CNN. While the network's ratings shot up during their coverage of the bombings, they were still trounced by Fox
Spouting pseudo-intellectual comments on a message board for a small town newspaper might give your ego a boost, but doesn't impress me in the least.
"They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
And, they did. If they weren't able to, the natives were skewered and left to bleed to death.
The roots of these confilcts over religion and territorial p*******s were not only laid down centuries ago, but millenia ago during the primitive time in our evolution. And every religion, pagan or monodeistic has behaved in similar fashion. Subjugate, or exterminate the infidels (or heathens) and bend them to our will, and ways. Take our "God" as your own, or die. The enmity and hatred have been smoldering, burning, exploding, causing death and carnage for centuries. Over, and over again all in the "Name of God", of whom incidentally Jesus is one third of the Trinity.
McVeigh was not "sent over the edge" because of the treatment of David Koresh and his followers. In fact, the frightening thing is that he was sane, and rational on a level which he saw all things as equal. It was much deeper than Ruby Ridge. But, you've probably never thumbed his essays. He did it for the main reason that he believed that it was "morally equivalent" to what our military does in other countries, and he saw no difference between bombing a government building here, or in Iraq. Once again you come up ignorant, spouting simplistic spoon fed propaganda. You don't get it, unless you're fed it.
I've actually got a trivia question for you, and no cheating. You're on your honor. Who rode 350 miles to warn the early Americans that the "British were coming"?
We need to go to a national sales tax..
But, the problem with a national sales tax is that politicians could no longer pay their targeted voters with tax law manipulation. there is not 70,000+ pages of tax code for nothing folks!
It is simply unproductive to work more hours and get paid less per hour because your income taxes increase. It is hard enough competing against folks from India and Russia for programming ...more jobs. you have to charge low prices to compete. then the more you make the more they take.not fair
seems that the only way to capture the 8% that the government is missing due to the underground economy is to scrap the current tax system and go to a consumption tax. but this must be inplace of the current income tax not in addition to it ! which really only makes sense since our economy is driven by comsumers.
this way people will keep the money they earn, and only pay tax when they buy things. The only items that would be exempt from this tax is food, medicine, homes.
i don't see the government doing this because they would lose control of the people. And lets face it every progressive thinks the government has all the answers, and our government is run by a group of progressives, on both sides of the isle.
thanks dan for making me look into this, i learned alot
Those of us who are big fans of Teddy Roosevelt, ain't such a type. Just like the words Democrat, and Republican, they have not meant the same thing over the course of 236 years. You should look into that too. I also would encourage you to look into the original corporate charter system which existed before the Civil War, "borers" (lobbyists), and the 14th Amendment. Corporations had NO place whatsoever in civic life before the 1860's.
Those ...more who do not learn History...
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Here is one for you
Who was born Sept 1, 1968 in a small town in Egypt's Nile Delta moved with his family to the Abdeen section of Cairo at the age of 10 then went on to study architecture at Cairo University, graduating in 1990, and continued his studies in Hamburg, Germany at the Technical University of Hamburg. In Hamburg, then became involved with the al-Quds Mosque, where he met Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, ...more and Ziad Jarrah, together forming the Hamburg cell. before disappeared from Germany for periods of time, spending some time in Afghanistan, including several months in late 1999 and early 2000 when he met Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaeda leaders. the other Hamburg cell members were recruited by bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the "planes operation" in the United States. then returned to Hamburg in February 2000, and began inquiring about flight training in the United States. In early September 2001, he traveled to Prince George's County, Maryland, where fellow hijacker Hani Hanjour was at the time, then traveled to Boston were, on Sept 10 with Abdulaziz al-Omari spent the night at the Comfort Inn in South Portland. On the morning of September 11, He and Omari traveled on Colgan Air back to Boston, where they boarded American Airlines Flight 11. Fifteen minutes into the flight, his team of hijackers attacked and took over control of the aircraft. At 8:46 am, crashing the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center killing everyone on board including himself and other hijackers,
No cheating. You're on your honor
Mr. Z Said "I don't deny radical Muslims claim Jihad in our regard"
Paul Revere rode twenty miles to Cambridge. Israel Bissell rode 350 miles to sound the alarm across the colonies. But, yet again the history which America fabricated has come to rule the day. Nothing Longfellow, or Irving wrote was in any way historically accurate.
And no, I don't know the hijacker's name. Nor do I care to. The only thing which should be recorded is the act, and the name should be dead to history.
My cousin walked up to me and said "you were right". I said "what?", and he said "you were right. Remember when you said why you don't fly?". I said "yeah, because it's a weapon."
"Well, a plane just hit the World Trade Center". I ask "what, a Cessna?". He says, "no. A 767."
But thanks ...more for burning a name into my memory for whatever self indulgent reason.
Who is fubdamtaly changing the country
Holla
Yes We Did !
I hear people saying we don't need this war
But, I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn't get to keep 'em by backing down
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start your preaching let me ask you this my friend
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors ...more still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
Well, after 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And we vowed to get the one’s behind bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they're fighting for
Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Yeah, some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
A few of the things which tipped off the CIA were the high walls of the compound, the barbed wire, no phone or internet, burning of garbage on site, their children did not attend school, and the fact that the families in the compound not only were associates of bin Laden, but were living far beyond their means and went by assumed names. When they communicated with family (they were under surveillance) not only did they lie about where they were, ...more but the calls were made from locations separate from their dwelling. Whether you realize it, or not, bin Laden was a very wealthy man and the best place to hide anything is in "plain sight". Truth be told, they were so overly cautious that their isolationist behavior was a "red flag".
Thicker than molasses in winter, this one...
Using their own search engine, you can find at least twenty stories written by the Soros-funded, 501 (c)(3) welfare queens at Media Matters for America that were explicitly meant to discredit Andrew Breitbart's investigative efforts into what became known as Pigford -- a four-alarm scandal involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Friday morning, Breitbart's cause on behalf of those black farmers who had been legitimately ...more discriminated against was fully vindicated on page A1 of the New York Times. Breitbart News' editor-in-chief has more on that here, but right now Media Matters is standing naked with egg all over their corrupt faces, and let us hope the rest of the media take notice.
RIP ANDREW!
Conservative bloggers cheered The New York Times on Friday for a 5,000-word investigative report dissecting abuse of a federal program to compensate farmers who had faced discrimination that writers on the right said vindicated the work of one of their icons — the late Andrew Breitbart.
“Today Andrew Breitbart is smiling, and probably amazed,” the Washington ...more Examiner’s Byron York wrote on Twitter. “New York Times goes deep into Pigford scandal.”
I will sleep with a smile tonight :)
You too Andrew...
We need to go to a national sales tax..
But, the problem with a national sales tax is that politicians could no longer pay their targeted voters with tax law manipulation. there is not 70,000+ pages of tax code for nothing folks!
It is simply unproductive to work more hours and get paid less per hour because your income taxes increase. It is hard enough competing against folks from India and Russia for ...more programming ...more jobs. you have to charge low prices to compete. then the more you make the more they take.not fair
seems that the only way to capture the 8% that the government is missing due to the underground economy is to scrap the current tax system and go to a consumption tax. but this must be inplace of the current income tax not in addition to it ! which really only makes sense since our economy is driven by comsumers.
this way people will keep the money they earn, and only pay tax when they buy things. The only items that would be exempt from this tax is food, medicine, homes.
i don't see the government doing this because they would lose control of the people. And lets face it every progressive thinks the government has all the answers, and our government is run by a group of progressives, on both sides of the isle.
thanks dan for making me look into this, i learned alot
Your Welcome!
Even the New York Times has trouble getting Department of Justice officials to speak on record on the story. The Times says, "Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West, who supervised the civil division and oversaw the handling of the cases, canceled an interview. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. also declined to comment."
This 2008 article from the San Francisco Chronicle profiles Tony West, who was then the California finance co-chair for the ...more Obama campaign and is described as an "Obama power broker." West, a deep Obama campaign insider, oversaw the settlements for the Obama administration.
This is another indication that the Pigford scandal was about vote buying and elections for the politicians involved. Much of the original Pigford corruption traces to Arkansas. That was no accident but was at the behest of the man who was President when the first Pigford settlement was designed, Bill Clinton. From the Times:
Sympathy for Tsarnaev:
It seemed as though the NY Times was lamentings Tamerlan's fleeting boxing career,
If the New York Times wants to know why their readership has plummeted in recent years, it's largely because of stories like this, in which the Times tells an exculpatory sob story about Tamerlan Tsarnaev murdering and maiming people at the Boston Marathon ... thanks to supposedly xenophobic boxing rules. Seriously ?
Hats off to you Jeanine you monologue should be repeated on every channel on TV for a week, WOW!
Right on the money!
Where I spend my winters is my business and yes the daily traffic ...more jam down 39 behind a parade of NYT reading snobs driving there P.C. Priuses with there obama bumper stickers is not my idea of a fun time. It is a business decision.
Coors Beer was on strike for 40 yrs. It didn't slow Coors down at all. They immediately replaced the striking workers and continued with business as usual. And Coors was protected from another union ...more trying to organize the non union workers. By law, only one union can represent a group of workers at a time.
I can help him pack, "Eat your Peas"
JON KARL: Mr. President, you are one hundred days into your second term. On the gun bill, you did everything you could to get it passed, obviously it didn't. Everyone is ignoring your efforts to try to get an undo of the Sequester. your Benghazi story is falling ...more apart at the seams. There’s even a bill that you threatened to veto that had 92 democrats in the House voting yes. My question to you is: Do you still have the juice to get to pass any of your agenda
Looks like barrys CHICKENS! have come home to roost.
Just wait until the middle class sees what they have done to themselves and this country!
the bill requires that infants born alive be immediately transported to the nearest hospital and provided appropriate medical treatment that is equal to treatment given to any other infant following natural birth.
thank god the people are slowly coming to there senses!
And besides the taxpayers, who else got screwed? The black farmers who really ...more were discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
You see, had the rest of the media slavishly followed the Times' lead that day, questions might have been raised that would make Obama uncomfortable. And as we've seen with Libya and the failed economy, the media just cannot allow that to happen -- especially with respect to a scandal.
And the media certainly won't report on a story that might give the American public another reason to distrust government largesse, especially when it is wrapped in racial guilt.
That might explain the one day in decades where the media ignored the New York Times,
Coors Beer was on strike for 40 yrs. It didn't slow Coors down at all. They immediately replaced the striking workers and continued with business as usual. And Coors was protected from another union ...more ...more trying to organize the non union workers. By law, only one union can represent a group of workers at a time.
Do nothing. Let the labor organize, and then refuse to settle at the negotiation table. There is no law saying you must settle. Reach an impasse quickly and let the workers go on strike. Then call in non-union workers to work until the union gives up and goes away.
Coors Beer was on strike for 40 yrs. It didn't slow Coors down at all. They immediately replaced the striking workers and continued with business as usual. And Coors ...more was protected from another union ...more ...more trying to organize the non union workers. By law, only one union can represent a group of workers at a time.
Is anyone paying attention to what is going on here?
Obama today blames U.S. for gun smuggling In Mexico; No mention of Fast and Furious!
Amazing!
Jared Loughner
James Holmes
Adam Lanza
Major Nidal Hassan
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Anders Behring Breivik
All should have been locked up long before they snapped but the left shut down all the insane asylums because of political correctness. Lets start with the real problem hand guns on our streets, jihadists who hate America and mental patients
Mark I. Thompson will testify that Hillary Clinton "tried to cut the department's own counter-terrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making" as they responded to the Benghazi attacks.
Thompson is a former Marine and the current deputy coordinator for operations in the agency's counter terrorism bureau. He will appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday to testify about the Benghazi attacks.
Fox News is also reporting that ANOTHER ...more official from counteroffensive made the same allegation "about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October."
"You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night," the second official in State's counter-terrorism bureau told colleagues back in October. Those comments would appear to be corroborated by Thompson's forthcoming testimony.
They just can't stop talking about how they're doin' it, irrespective of the fact that they never HAVE succeeded in doin' it (for the same reason that some high schoolers talk incessantly of their potency and prowess.)
That's all this absurd thread has become.
Like how you can bet the farm that right now the media are looking at the results of the bombshell report Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News just dropped and are already coordinating a way to downplay, ignore, or discredit what looks to be a very serious White House scandal that almost certainly ...more involves a cover up.
The Bengazi coverup will be the beginning of the end for Barry and company, even their lapdogs in the main stream media are turning on Him, took long enough, but this is too much to ignore. Via con Dios Barry Soetoro.
Nothing is too much to ignore
It took the left a week to figure out how to attack the New York Times after of the paper of record published a front-page investigative ...more article on Pigford. But the pushback has begun in earnest, using the Big Lie that criticisms of fraud, greedy lawyers, and political maneuvers are actually racist attacks on black farmers
Just thought I would give everyone a preview of what Phil will be saying tomorrow.
There may be some mention in one of the tiny little headline-crawls of Benghazi. I didn't see it. I'm looking at the big links. Limo Fire, Jodi Arias, Amanda Knox.* No Gosnell (even though his jury is deliberating)