271 Hard Back Business books sent to Stupid Obama! He read NONE of them!
Dec 26, 2013 13:18:05 #
Obama advisers recommend NSA overhaul after surveillance scandal report
Published time: December 13, 2013 05:20
Edited time: December 13, 2013 09:35
A White House-appointed task force is to recommend an overhaul of the National Security Agency, including changing the controversial bulk phone record collection and giving it civilian leadership, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The panel of experts called the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology was called in August in response to the public revelations of the NSAs mass electronic surveillance by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The five-strong task force is to submit its recommendations to the Obama administration on Saturday, but the document is not yet finalized, and its not clear how much of it the White House chooses to make public.
The newspaper was given an overview of the panels recommendations by four people familiar with the draft. If the US administration chooses to follow on the non-binding suggestions, it would mean a lot of changes for how the key US intelligence agency works.
The experts recommended forbidding the US from collecting and storing millions of phone call records of Americans. Instead the records would be held by phone companies or a third party, with NSA receiving access to select data after meeting a new higher standard of proof.
The task force also suggested changing NSA leadership from military to civilian. Currently the agency is part of the Pentagons Cyber Command, the main military cyber-warfare unit.
Another suggestion is to separate NSAs Information Assurance Directorate, the part responsible for code-making, from the rest of the agency. This would help to avoid a conflict of interests, in which one component of the agency is developing and promoting new encryption methods and other communication security protocols while another is tasked with cracking them.
The panel suggested reviewing NSAs procedures for issuing security clearances. The intelligence agency came under fire after it was revealed that Snowden was given his clearance, which allowed him to leak classified documents detailing the surveillance programs, despite having been red-flagged.
Other provisions of the draft address concerns by US foreign allies, who voiced anger after finding out, that their leaders and citizens were subject of NSAs snooping. Germany and Brazil were among the most vocal critics of NSA over the tapping of phones of Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dilma Rousseff respectively. The experts suggest developing international norms for government activity in cyberspace and rules for cyber-warfare.
The members of the task force are Richard Clarke, a longtime US counterterrorism chief; Michael Morell, former CIA deputy director; Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago law professor; Cass Sunstein, former White House regulatory official; and Peter Swire, a former economic and privacy official.
The Obama administration said it would consider the task force suggesting in its own review of intelligence policies. The review is expected to be complete by the end of the year.
Published time: December 13, 2013 05:20
Edited time: December 13, 2013 09:35
A White House-appointed task force is to recommend an overhaul of the National Security Agency, including changing the controversial bulk phone record collection and giving it civilian leadership, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The panel of experts called the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology was called in August in response to the public revelations of the NSAs mass electronic surveillance by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The five-strong task force is to submit its recommendations to the Obama administration on Saturday, but the document is not yet finalized, and its not clear how much of it the White House chooses to make public.
The newspaper was given an overview of the panels recommendations by four people familiar with the draft. If the US administration chooses to follow on the non-binding suggestions, it would mean a lot of changes for how the key US intelligence agency works.
The experts recommended forbidding the US from collecting and storing millions of phone call records of Americans. Instead the records would be held by phone companies or a third party, with NSA receiving access to select data after meeting a new higher standard of proof.
The task force also suggested changing NSA leadership from military to civilian. Currently the agency is part of the Pentagons Cyber Command, the main military cyber-warfare unit.
Another suggestion is to separate NSAs Information Assurance Directorate, the part responsible for code-making, from the rest of the agency. This would help to avoid a conflict of interests, in which one component of the agency is developing and promoting new encryption methods and other communication security protocols while another is tasked with cracking them.
The panel suggested reviewing NSAs procedures for issuing security clearances. The intelligence agency came under fire after it was revealed that Snowden was given his clearance, which allowed him to leak classified documents detailing the surveillance programs, despite having been red-flagged.
Other provisions of the draft address concerns by US foreign allies, who voiced anger after finding out, that their leaders and citizens were subject of NSAs snooping. Germany and Brazil were among the most vocal critics of NSA over the tapping of phones of Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dilma Rousseff respectively. The experts suggest developing international norms for government activity in cyberspace and rules for cyber-warfare.
The members of the task force are Richard Clarke, a longtime US counterterrorism chief; Michael Morell, former CIA deputy director; Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago law professor; Cass Sunstein, former White House regulatory official; and Peter Swire, a former economic and privacy official.
The Obama administration said it would consider the task force suggesting in its own review of intelligence policies. The review is expected to be complete by the end of the year.
Dec 26, 2013 13:18:37 #
Obama downplays IRS scandal, blames Obamacare rollout on outdated agencies
President Obama on Thursday portrayed the IRS targeting of tea-party groups as an innocent attempt at efficiency by bureaucrats that went awry, and he expressed surprise that people were outraged by the episode.
In an interview with Hardball host Chris Matthews on MSNBC, Mr. Obama showed none of the outrage that he himself displayed in May, when he fired the acting commissioner of the IRS.
SEE ALSO: Issa: FBI impeding inquiry into IRS targeting of conservative groups
Youve got an office in Cincinnati in the IRS office that, I think, for bureaucratic reasons is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether [a] nonprofit is actually a political organization Mr. Obama said. And theyve got a list. And suddenly, everybodys outraged.
The president went on to tell the liberal commentator, There are some so-called progressives and perceived-to-be-liberal commentators, who during that week, just were outraged at the possibility that these folks had been, you know, at the direction of the Democratic Party in some way, discriminated against tea party folks. That is what gets news. Thats what gets attention.
Mr. Obamas attempt to portray the IRS scandal as a simple bureaucratic snafu, rather than a partisan targeting of his administrations opponents, contrasted sharply with the indignation the president displayed when he learned about the affair. In May, Mr. Obama ordered Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to fire acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller.
The president then went on national TV and said of the IRS affair, Its inexcusable and Americans are right to be angry about it. And Im angry about it.
In the wide-ranging interview conducted on the campus of American University in Washington, the president also criticized congressional Republicans for allowing lawmakers affiliated with the tea party to block most legislation, including comprehensive immigration reform.
Theyve gotta be embarrassed, Mr. Obama said of Republican lawmakers. I actually think there are a bunch of Republicans who want to get stuff done. Theyve now been in charge of the House of Representatives for a couple of years now. And they just dont have a lot to show for it.
SEE ALSO: Young millennials shun Obamacare, creating risky imbalance
He added, The problem is not, generally speaking on the Democratic side. And obviously, Im partisan here. [But] theres so much focus on the politics of the base and Republicans being worried about getting challenged during the primary season that that inhibits a lot of cooperation.
The president touched on several other topics:
⦁ On Obamacares faulty rollout, Mr. Obama said part of the problem was that the federal government is poorly organized. The challenge, I think, that we have going forward is not so much my personal management style or particular issues around White House organization. We have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly.
⦁ On getting more young people to sign up for Obamacare: For young people to recognize that it is in their financial interest and their health interest to be able to get ongoing preventive care, to be able to get free contraception and benefits that without fear of going bankrupt or making their family bankrupt if they get sick thats somethin thats priceless.
⦁ On his administrations efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act: Our Justice Departments gonna be staying on them. If we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the Justice Department will come down on em and file suit.
⦁ On Pope Francis: I think Pope Francis is showing himself to be just an extraordinarily thoughtful and soulful messenger of peace and justice. I havent had a chance to meet him yet. But everything that Ive read, everything that Ive seen from him, indicates the degree to which he is trying to remind us of those core obligations to help the poor.
⦁ On whether hell support Vice President Joseph R. Biden or former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for president in 2016: Not a chance am I going there. Both Hillary and Joe would make outstanding presidents and possess the qualities that are needed to be outstanding presidents.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/5/obama-downplays-irs-scandal-blames-obamacare-rollo/#ixzz2obeb5FdA
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President Obama on Thursday portrayed the IRS targeting of tea-party groups as an innocent attempt at efficiency by bureaucrats that went awry, and he expressed surprise that people were outraged by the episode.
In an interview with Hardball host Chris Matthews on MSNBC, Mr. Obama showed none of the outrage that he himself displayed in May, when he fired the acting commissioner of the IRS.
SEE ALSO: Issa: FBI impeding inquiry into IRS targeting of conservative groups
Youve got an office in Cincinnati in the IRS office that, I think, for bureaucratic reasons is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether [a] nonprofit is actually a political organization Mr. Obama said. And theyve got a list. And suddenly, everybodys outraged.
The president went on to tell the liberal commentator, There are some so-called progressives and perceived-to-be-liberal commentators, who during that week, just were outraged at the possibility that these folks had been, you know, at the direction of the Democratic Party in some way, discriminated against tea party folks. That is what gets news. Thats what gets attention.
Mr. Obamas attempt to portray the IRS scandal as a simple bureaucratic snafu, rather than a partisan targeting of his administrations opponents, contrasted sharply with the indignation the president displayed when he learned about the affair. In May, Mr. Obama ordered Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to fire acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller.
The president then went on national TV and said of the IRS affair, Its inexcusable and Americans are right to be angry about it. And Im angry about it.
In the wide-ranging interview conducted on the campus of American University in Washington, the president also criticized congressional Republicans for allowing lawmakers affiliated with the tea party to block most legislation, including comprehensive immigration reform.
Theyve gotta be embarrassed, Mr. Obama said of Republican lawmakers. I actually think there are a bunch of Republicans who want to get stuff done. Theyve now been in charge of the House of Representatives for a couple of years now. And they just dont have a lot to show for it.
SEE ALSO: Young millennials shun Obamacare, creating risky imbalance
He added, The problem is not, generally speaking on the Democratic side. And obviously, Im partisan here. [But] theres so much focus on the politics of the base and Republicans being worried about getting challenged during the primary season that that inhibits a lot of cooperation.
The president touched on several other topics:
⦁ On Obamacares faulty rollout, Mr. Obama said part of the problem was that the federal government is poorly organized. The challenge, I think, that we have going forward is not so much my personal management style or particular issues around White House organization. We have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly.
⦁ On getting more young people to sign up for Obamacare: For young people to recognize that it is in their financial interest and their health interest to be able to get ongoing preventive care, to be able to get free contraception and benefits that without fear of going bankrupt or making their family bankrupt if they get sick thats somethin thats priceless.
⦁ On his administrations efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act: Our Justice Departments gonna be staying on them. If we have evidence that you have mechanisms that are specifically designed to discriminate against certain groups of voters, then the Justice Department will come down on em and file suit.
⦁ On Pope Francis: I think Pope Francis is showing himself to be just an extraordinarily thoughtful and soulful messenger of peace and justice. I havent had a chance to meet him yet. But everything that Ive read, everything that Ive seen from him, indicates the degree to which he is trying to remind us of those core obligations to help the poor.
⦁ On whether hell support Vice President Joseph R. Biden or former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for president in 2016: Not a chance am I going there. Both Hillary and Joe would make outstanding presidents and possess the qualities that are needed to be outstanding presidents.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/5/obama-downplays-irs-scandal-blames-obamacare-rollo/#ixzz2obeb5FdA
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Dec 26, 2013 13:19:19 #
Charles Krauthammer: Obama oblivious to scandal, incompetence
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In explaining the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, President Obama told Chris Matthews he had discovered that we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly.
An interesting discovery to make after having consigned the vast universe of American medicine, one-sixth of the U.S. economy, to the tender mercies of the agency bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service.
Most people become aware of the hopeless inefficiency of sclerotic government by, oh, 17 at the department of motor vehicles. Obamas late discovery is especially remarkable considering that he built his entire political philosophy on the rock of Big Government, on the fervent belief in the state as the very engine of collective action and the ultimate source of national greatness. (Indeed, of individual success as well, as in If youve got a business you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen.)
This blinding revelation of the ponderous incompetence of bureaucratic government came just a few weeks after Obama confessed that what were also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy. Another light bulb goes off, this one three years after passing a law designed to force millions of Americans to shop for new health plans via the maze of untried, untested, insecure, unreliable online exchanges.
This discovery joins a long list that includes Obamas rueful admission that there really are no shovel-ready jobs. That one came after having passed his monstrous $830 billion stimulus on the argument that the weakened economy would be jump-started by a massive infusion of shovel-ready jobs. Now known to be fictional.
Barack Obama is not just late to discover the most elementary workings of government. With alarming regularity, he professes obliviousness to the workings of his own government. He claims, for example, to have known nothing about the IRS targeting scandal, the AP phone records scandal, the NSA tapping of Angela Merkel. And had not a clue that the centerpiece of his signature legislative achievement the online Obamacare exchange, three years in the making would fail catastrophically upon launch. Or that Obamacare would cause millions of Americans to lose their private health plans.
Hence the odd spectacle of a president expressing surprise and disappointment in the federal government as if hes not the one running it. Hence the repeated no-one-is-more-upset-than-me posture upon deploring the nonfunctioning website, the IRS outrage, the AP intrusions and any number of scandals from which Obama tries to create safe distance by posing as an observer. He gives the impression of a man on a West Wing tour trying out the desk in the Oval Office, only to be told that he is president of the United States.
The paradox of this presidency is that this most passive bystander president is at the same time the most ideological ambitious in decades. The sweep and scope of his health care legislation alone are unprecedented. Hes spent billions of tax money attempting to create, by fiat and ex nihilo, a new green economy. His (failed) cap-and-trade bill would have given him regulatory control of the energy economy. He wants universal preschool and has just announced his unwavering commitment to slaying the dragon of economic inequality, which, like the poor, has always been with us.
Obamas discovery that government bureaucracies dont do things very well creates a breathtaking disconnect between his transformative ambitions and his detachment from the job itself. How does his Olympian vision coexist with the lassitude of his actual governance, a passivity that verges on absenteeism?
What bridges that gap is rhetoric. Barack Obama is a master rhetorician. Its allowed him to move crowds, rise inexorably and twice win the most glittering prize of all. Rhetoric has changed his reality. For Obama, it can change the countrys. Hope and change, after all, is a rhetorical device. Of the kind Obama has always imagined can move mountains.
Thats why his reaction to Obamacare websites crash-on-takeoff is so telling. His remedy? A cross-country campaign-style speaking tour. As if rhetoric could repeal that reality.
Managing, governing, negotiating, cajoling, crafting legislation, forging compromise. For these this stuff of governance Obama has shown little aptitude and even less interest. Perhaps, as Valerie Jarrett has suggested, he is simply too easily bored to invest his greatness in such mundanity.
I dont write code, said Obama in reaction to the website crash. Nor is he expected to. He is, however, expected to run an administration that can.
Krauthammer is a Washington Post columnist. Contact him at letters@charleskrauthammer.com.
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In explaining the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, President Obama told Chris Matthews he had discovered that we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly.
An interesting discovery to make after having consigned the vast universe of American medicine, one-sixth of the U.S. economy, to the tender mercies of the agency bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service.
Most people become aware of the hopeless inefficiency of sclerotic government by, oh, 17 at the department of motor vehicles. Obamas late discovery is especially remarkable considering that he built his entire political philosophy on the rock of Big Government, on the fervent belief in the state as the very engine of collective action and the ultimate source of national greatness. (Indeed, of individual success as well, as in If youve got a business you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen.)
This blinding revelation of the ponderous incompetence of bureaucratic government came just a few weeks after Obama confessed that what were also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy. Another light bulb goes off, this one three years after passing a law designed to force millions of Americans to shop for new health plans via the maze of untried, untested, insecure, unreliable online exchanges.
This discovery joins a long list that includes Obamas rueful admission that there really are no shovel-ready jobs. That one came after having passed his monstrous $830 billion stimulus on the argument that the weakened economy would be jump-started by a massive infusion of shovel-ready jobs. Now known to be fictional.
Barack Obama is not just late to discover the most elementary workings of government. With alarming regularity, he professes obliviousness to the workings of his own government. He claims, for example, to have known nothing about the IRS targeting scandal, the AP phone records scandal, the NSA tapping of Angela Merkel. And had not a clue that the centerpiece of his signature legislative achievement the online Obamacare exchange, three years in the making would fail catastrophically upon launch. Or that Obamacare would cause millions of Americans to lose their private health plans.
Hence the odd spectacle of a president expressing surprise and disappointment in the federal government as if hes not the one running it. Hence the repeated no-one-is-more-upset-than-me posture upon deploring the nonfunctioning website, the IRS outrage, the AP intrusions and any number of scandals from which Obama tries to create safe distance by posing as an observer. He gives the impression of a man on a West Wing tour trying out the desk in the Oval Office, only to be told that he is president of the United States.
The paradox of this presidency is that this most passive bystander president is at the same time the most ideological ambitious in decades. The sweep and scope of his health care legislation alone are unprecedented. Hes spent billions of tax money attempting to create, by fiat and ex nihilo, a new green economy. His (failed) cap-and-trade bill would have given him regulatory control of the energy economy. He wants universal preschool and has just announced his unwavering commitment to slaying the dragon of economic inequality, which, like the poor, has always been with us.
Obamas discovery that government bureaucracies dont do things very well creates a breathtaking disconnect between his transformative ambitions and his detachment from the job itself. How does his Olympian vision coexist with the lassitude of his actual governance, a passivity that verges on absenteeism?
What bridges that gap is rhetoric. Barack Obama is a master rhetorician. Its allowed him to move crowds, rise inexorably and twice win the most glittering prize of all. Rhetoric has changed his reality. For Obama, it can change the countrys. Hope and change, after all, is a rhetorical device. Of the kind Obama has always imagined can move mountains.
Thats why his reaction to Obamacare websites crash-on-takeoff is so telling. His remedy? A cross-country campaign-style speaking tour. As if rhetoric could repeal that reality.
Managing, governing, negotiating, cajoling, crafting legislation, forging compromise. For these this stuff of governance Obama has shown little aptitude and even less interest. Perhaps, as Valerie Jarrett has suggested, he is simply too easily bored to invest his greatness in such mundanity.
I dont write code, said Obama in reaction to the website crash. Nor is he expected to. He is, however, expected to run an administration that can.
Krauthammer is a Washington Post columnist. Contact him at letters@charleskrauthammer.com.
Dec 26, 2013 13:19:57 #
Obama reverses position on IRS targeting of conservative groups
Mon, 12/09/2013 - 3:14pm | posted by Jason Pye
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Shortly after Lois Lerner, a senior IRS official who has since retired, and an internal watchdog report confirmed that the tax agency had targeted conservatives and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status, President Barack Obama slammed the actions as outrageous and inexcusable.
But since those initial comments, President Obama has, noticeably, tried to dismiss the scandal, one of many that his administration has faced this year and led the American public to question his honesty and trustworthiness. In July, for example, he complained that Republicans in Congress investigating the IRSs targeting of conservatives organizations were engaging in an endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals.
But President Obama and leftist pundits have continued to downplay the IRS scandal, despite evidence that showing that the agency disproportionately targeted conservative organizations.
The latest example came in an interview last week with MSNBCs Chris Matthews, in which President Obama complained that the media doesnt report on about the things government does right compared to the focus on the IRS scandal.
[T]hats not something thats reported about. If, on the other hand, youve got an office in Cincinnati, in the IRS office that I think, for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether a nonprofit is actually a political organization, deserves a tax exempt agency, President Obama told Matthews, according to a report from The Daily Caller. And theyve got a list, and suddenly everybodys outraged.
Ill point out that there are some so-called progressives and, you know, perceived to be liberal commentators who during that week were just as outraged at the possibility that these folks, you know, had had been, you know, at the direction of the Democratic Party, in some way discriminated against these folks, he added.
Voters, by the way, have disagreed with President Obamas assertion that the IRS scandal was phony or in some way not deserving of attention. According to a Fox News poll from this summer, 59% believe that the scandal should be taken seriously.
A Quinnipiac poll released in May showed that 76% of Americans want a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS over the scandal, though, President Obama refused to do so. Separately, a CNN poll showed released in June found that a rising number of the public believed the IRS scandal is connected to the White House.
The Daily Caller noted that the Justice Department, which is supposed to be investigating the IRS over the scandal, has yet to contact any of the groups that were singled out by the agency.
The Treasury Department and IRS have recently proposed guidance for non-profit groups seeking tax-exempt status that would undermine free speech and, ostensibly, codify the targeting of these groups via regulatory fiat.
Mon, 12/09/2013 - 3:14pm | posted by Jason Pye
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Shortly after Lois Lerner, a senior IRS official who has since retired, and an internal watchdog report confirmed that the tax agency had targeted conservatives and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status, President Barack Obama slammed the actions as outrageous and inexcusable.
But since those initial comments, President Obama has, noticeably, tried to dismiss the scandal, one of many that his administration has faced this year and led the American public to question his honesty and trustworthiness. In July, for example, he complained that Republicans in Congress investigating the IRSs targeting of conservatives organizations were engaging in an endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals.
But President Obama and leftist pundits have continued to downplay the IRS scandal, despite evidence that showing that the agency disproportionately targeted conservative organizations.
The latest example came in an interview last week with MSNBCs Chris Matthews, in which President Obama complained that the media doesnt report on about the things government does right compared to the focus on the IRS scandal.
[T]hats not something thats reported about. If, on the other hand, youve got an office in Cincinnati, in the IRS office that I think, for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether a nonprofit is actually a political organization, deserves a tax exempt agency, President Obama told Matthews, according to a report from The Daily Caller. And theyve got a list, and suddenly everybodys outraged.
Ill point out that there are some so-called progressives and, you know, perceived to be liberal commentators who during that week were just as outraged at the possibility that these folks, you know, had had been, you know, at the direction of the Democratic Party, in some way discriminated against these folks, he added.
Voters, by the way, have disagreed with President Obamas assertion that the IRS scandal was phony or in some way not deserving of attention. According to a Fox News poll from this summer, 59% believe that the scandal should be taken seriously.
A Quinnipiac poll released in May showed that 76% of Americans want a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS over the scandal, though, President Obama refused to do so. Separately, a CNN poll showed released in June found that a rising number of the public believed the IRS scandal is connected to the White House.
The Daily Caller noted that the Justice Department, which is supposed to be investigating the IRS over the scandal, has yet to contact any of the groups that were singled out by the agency.
The Treasury Department and IRS have recently proposed guidance for non-profit groups seeking tax-exempt status that would undermine free speech and, ostensibly, codify the targeting of these groups via regulatory fiat.
Dec 26, 2013 13:20:37 #
Barack Obama Dismisses the IRS Scandal as Faux Outrage-
Hey, remember the IRS scandal? You know, when the IRS specifically singled out conservative tea party groups for extra scrutiny and bullying in order to squash opposition to Barack Obama going into the 2012 presidential election? Remember when President Obama said he was outraged to find out the IRS had been abusing its power to intimidate those who disagree with the administration politically? Yeah...about that.
Last week during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, President Obama pretty much dismissed the scandal as faux outrage from conservative groups because they were "on a list."
OBAMA: Thats not thats not something thats reported about. If, on the other hand, youve got an office in Cincinnati, in the IRS office that I think, for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether a nonprofit is actually a political organization, deserves a tax exempt agency. And theyve got a list, and suddenly everybodys outraged.
At one point President Obama claimed he was outraged, but his interview with Matthews reveals it was all an act after his administration got caught (again) abusing its power in order to get him safely re-elected. As a reminder, that "list" Obama is referring to included more than 500 groups that were singled out for the following:
-Patriot
-People teaching about constitutional rights
-Tea Party
-"Anti-Obama" materials
-Constitutional
-Etc.
Over to you, Kim Strassel:
Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was.
Hey, remember the IRS scandal? You know, when the IRS specifically singled out conservative tea party groups for extra scrutiny and bullying in order to squash opposition to Barack Obama going into the 2012 presidential election? Remember when President Obama said he was outraged to find out the IRS had been abusing its power to intimidate those who disagree with the administration politically? Yeah...about that.
Last week during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, President Obama pretty much dismissed the scandal as faux outrage from conservative groups because they were "on a list."
OBAMA: Thats not thats not something thats reported about. If, on the other hand, youve got an office in Cincinnati, in the IRS office that I think, for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether a nonprofit is actually a political organization, deserves a tax exempt agency. And theyve got a list, and suddenly everybodys outraged.
At one point President Obama claimed he was outraged, but his interview with Matthews reveals it was all an act after his administration got caught (again) abusing its power in order to get him safely re-elected. As a reminder, that "list" Obama is referring to included more than 500 groups that were singled out for the following:
-Patriot
-People teaching about constitutional rights
-Tea Party
-"Anti-Obama" materials
-Constitutional
-Etc.
Over to you, Kim Strassel:
Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was.
Dec 26, 2013 13:21:15 #
Obama tells a whopper on IRS scandal
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Fact: The IRS targeted conservative and tea party groups requesting tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. Thats a fact.
SPECIAL COVERAGE: Tea Party Voices
Congress held hearings embarrassing hearings. Three top Internal Revenue Service officials resigned. No heads rolled, but for the Obama administration, and the lawless Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., that amounted to a major scandal. Even White House spokesman Jay Circus Carney called the IRS actions inappropriate. Fact.
But President Obama, in an interview last week with sycophant Chris Matthews, now says the entire scandal was made up by the media.
When we do things right, they dont get a lot of attention, the president said, no doubt sending a thrill up the MSNBC hosts leg. If we do something that is perceived at least initially as a screw-up, it will be on the nightly news for a week.
Like, say, deploying the nations tax watchdog to target political opponents? Just a screw-up.
You bet. Manufactured in the media.
If, on the other hand, Mr. Obama said, youve got an office in Cincinnati in the IRS office that, I think for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether nonprofit is actually a political organization, deserves a tax exempt agency [sic], and theyve got a list. Suddenly everyone is outraged.
And Ill point out there are some so-called progressives and, you know, perceived to be liberal commentators who during that week just were outraged at the possibility that these folks, you know, had been at the direction of the Democratic Party, in some way discriminated against tea party folks. You know, that is what gets news. Thats what gets attention.
Uh, yeah. Thats what gets news. In fact, thats also what gets presidents impeached (see Nixon, Richard re: Watergate).
Like Benghazi, when Obama officials like Susan E. Rice, Hillary Rodham Clinton even the president himself tried to make up a narrative that the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound was spontaneous and only about some obscure YouTube video, the story that Americas top officials tried to ply on the IRS scandal was that a few rogue workers had committed some transgressions. No scandal here, they said.
Of course, that was the red flag. No one knew? (Of course, that is the mantra of the Obama administration no one ever knows anything. They had three years to build the Obamacare website, and when it didnt work, well No one knew! Sheesh, get off our backs!)
Although the president is busy trying to change the subject, this time to income inequality, the IRS story just wont disappear. Last week, Rep. Darrell E. Issa, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, had simply had enough. He called out the IRS chief counsel, William Wilkins, for saying I dont recall a staggering 80 times during his congressional testimony last month.
Your memory consistently failed when you were asked about information you shared with the Treasury Department, the lawmaker wrote. Your failure to recollect important aspects of the Committees investigation suggests either a deliberate attempt to obfuscate your involvement in this matter or gross incompetence on your part.
Funny, the Obama administration, in Year 5, is totally fine with gross incompetence. Many warned that these guys werent ready for prime time. They said they were.
But really, they werent. And like with Obamacare, all they can say is its not our fault. Worse, no one seems to know anything. But as everyone knows, ignorance is no excuse.
Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times and is now editor of the Drudge Report. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter @josephcurl.
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Fact: The IRS targeted conservative and tea party groups requesting tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. Thats a fact.
SPECIAL COVERAGE: Tea Party Voices
Congress held hearings embarrassing hearings. Three top Internal Revenue Service officials resigned. No heads rolled, but for the Obama administration, and the lawless Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., that amounted to a major scandal. Even White House spokesman Jay Circus Carney called the IRS actions inappropriate. Fact.
But President Obama, in an interview last week with sycophant Chris Matthews, now says the entire scandal was made up by the media.
When we do things right, they dont get a lot of attention, the president said, no doubt sending a thrill up the MSNBC hosts leg. If we do something that is perceived at least initially as a screw-up, it will be on the nightly news for a week.
Like, say, deploying the nations tax watchdog to target political opponents? Just a screw-up.
You bet. Manufactured in the media.
If, on the other hand, Mr. Obama said, youve got an office in Cincinnati in the IRS office that, I think for bureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whether nonprofit is actually a political organization, deserves a tax exempt agency [sic], and theyve got a list. Suddenly everyone is outraged.
And Ill point out there are some so-called progressives and, you know, perceived to be liberal commentators who during that week just were outraged at the possibility that these folks, you know, had been at the direction of the Democratic Party, in some way discriminated against tea party folks. You know, that is what gets news. Thats what gets attention.
Uh, yeah. Thats what gets news. In fact, thats also what gets presidents impeached (see Nixon, Richard re: Watergate).
Like Benghazi, when Obama officials like Susan E. Rice, Hillary Rodham Clinton even the president himself tried to make up a narrative that the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound was spontaneous and only about some obscure YouTube video, the story that Americas top officials tried to ply on the IRS scandal was that a few rogue workers had committed some transgressions. No scandal here, they said.
Of course, that was the red flag. No one knew? (Of course, that is the mantra of the Obama administration no one ever knows anything. They had three years to build the Obamacare website, and when it didnt work, well No one knew! Sheesh, get off our backs!)
Although the president is busy trying to change the subject, this time to income inequality, the IRS story just wont disappear. Last week, Rep. Darrell E. Issa, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, had simply had enough. He called out the IRS chief counsel, William Wilkins, for saying I dont recall a staggering 80 times during his congressional testimony last month.
Your memory consistently failed when you were asked about information you shared with the Treasury Department, the lawmaker wrote. Your failure to recollect important aspects of the Committees investigation suggests either a deliberate attempt to obfuscate your involvement in this matter or gross incompetence on your part.
Funny, the Obama administration, in Year 5, is totally fine with gross incompetence. Many warned that these guys werent ready for prime time. They said they were.
But really, they werent. And like with Obamacare, all they can say is its not our fault. Worse, no one seems to know anything. But as everyone knows, ignorance is no excuse.
Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times and is now editor of the Drudge Report. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter @josephcurl.
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Dec 26, 2013 13:23:09 #
21 BLATANT LIES OBAMA HAS TOLD YOU DIRECTLY TO YOUR FACE
Congratulations America!
Youve re-elected liar-in-chief Obama for another term as your US President.
Lets celebrate this insanity by looking at some of the blatant lies he has told you.
Obama Lie #1
If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will end this war. You can take that to the bank.
Obama Lie #2
In Obamas campaign, he promised to eliminate entirely income tax for seniors making less
than $50,000. Yet another blatant lie right to your face.
Obama Lie #3
On an interview on The Today Show Obama claimed he won the Michigan & Illinois Primaries,
which is a lie.
GREGORY: But Senator you have not demonstrated that you can decisively put the nomination away. You have also not demonstrated that you can win some of the big states thatll be important in a general election. California, New York, Ohio.
OBAMA: Well David weve won Michigan and Georgia and Illinois and Missouri.
Obama Lie #4
The only involvement I had with Acorn was doing some stuff with the justice department.
Obama made it clear with this statement directly from his campaign website:
Obama Lie #5
My father served in World War II
Obama said in a campaign speech below that his father served in World War 2. Yeah, the communist Kenyan father that was 9 years old when the war ended. Obama was probably referring to his grandfather who did actually serve, but could the candidate who had written dreams of my father perhaps been trying to boost the image of his communist father seeing how most people rarely look into the facts? Probably. But why worry about who Baracks communist father really was while Obama is trying to enforce the dreams of his father?
Obama Lies #6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk
Obama Lied about giving the public 5 days to look at the health care bill before signing it, but then again, is it any surprise from the people that said youll save 3000% on your health Care Costs? To them Im sure it made sense that Sunday Night to Tuesday Morning was 5 days.
7 Lies & Broken Promises in the above video:
1. Make Government Open and Transparent
2. Make it Impossible for Congressmen to slip in Pork Barrel Projects
3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public (republicans shut out)
4. No more secrecy
5. Public will have 5 days to look at a Bill
6. Youll know whats in it (Republican Senators didnt know)
7. We will put every pork barrel project online
Obama Lie #13
No more Illegal Wire Tapping of American Citizens
Of course, the illegal wire tapping of American citizens continues to this day.
Obama Lie #14
The Promise to Walk the Picket Line if Workers are Denied the Right to Bargain
Did you really believe this one? lol what a joke!
Obama Lie #15
Promises to Close Guantanamo Bay and End Torture
Obama Lie #16
I am Somebody who Promotes Same-Sex Marriage
Watch this timeline of Obama flip-flopping on the Same-sex Marriage Issue. Yet another lie.
Obama Lie #17
Promise to Cut Deficit in Half
Soon after Obama took office he pledged that his administrated would cut the deficit in half. Closing in on the last year of his term his pledge made in February of 2009 is laughable, and just another item on his list of lies.
Obama Lie #18
If you like the healthcare plan you have, you can keep it.
Obama Lie #19
Obama Claims Border Fence Basically Complete but Its Only 5% Finished
They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a build up that began under President Bush and that we have continued. They wanted a fence. Well, that fence is now basically complete.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congresss investigative arm, reported in early 2009 that only 32 miles of double-layer fencing had been built. That means under President Obama, only 4.3 miles of double layer fencing has been built. This is woefully inadequate.
Obama Lie #20
We got back Every Dime we Used to Rescue the Banks with Interest
The Congressional Budget Officebased on figures from Obamas own Office of Management and Budgetgives a different assessment.
The cost to the federal government of the TARPs transactions (also referred to as the subsidy cost), including grants for mortgage programs that have not yet been made, will amount to $24 billion, said the CBO report, which was released on the same day Obama spoke.
Source: CNSNews.com
Obama Lie #21
Oath of Office (January 20th, 2009)
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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Congratulations America!
Youve re-elected liar-in-chief Obama for another term as your US President.
Lets celebrate this insanity by looking at some of the blatant lies he has told you.
Obama Lie #1
If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will end this war. You can take that to the bank.
Obama Lie #2
In Obamas campaign, he promised to eliminate entirely income tax for seniors making less
than $50,000. Yet another blatant lie right to your face.
Obama Lie #3
On an interview on The Today Show Obama claimed he won the Michigan & Illinois Primaries,
which is a lie.
GREGORY: But Senator you have not demonstrated that you can decisively put the nomination away. You have also not demonstrated that you can win some of the big states thatll be important in a general election. California, New York, Ohio.
OBAMA: Well David weve won Michigan and Georgia and Illinois and Missouri.
Obama Lie #4
The only involvement I had with Acorn was doing some stuff with the justice department.
Obama made it clear with this statement directly from his campaign website:
Obama Lie #5
My father served in World War II
Obama said in a campaign speech below that his father served in World War 2. Yeah, the communist Kenyan father that was 9 years old when the war ended. Obama was probably referring to his grandfather who did actually serve, but could the candidate who had written dreams of my father perhaps been trying to boost the image of his communist father seeing how most people rarely look into the facts? Probably. But why worry about who Baracks communist father really was while Obama is trying to enforce the dreams of his father?
Obama Lies #6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk
Obama Lied about giving the public 5 days to look at the health care bill before signing it, but then again, is it any surprise from the people that said youll save 3000% on your health Care Costs? To them Im sure it made sense that Sunday Night to Tuesday Morning was 5 days.
7 Lies & Broken Promises in the above video:
1. Make Government Open and Transparent
2. Make it Impossible for Congressmen to slip in Pork Barrel Projects
3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public (republicans shut out)
4. No more secrecy
5. Public will have 5 days to look at a Bill
6. Youll know whats in it (Republican Senators didnt know)
7. We will put every pork barrel project online
Obama Lie #13
No more Illegal Wire Tapping of American Citizens
Of course, the illegal wire tapping of American citizens continues to this day.
Obama Lie #14
The Promise to Walk the Picket Line if Workers are Denied the Right to Bargain
Did you really believe this one? lol what a joke!
Obama Lie #15
Promises to Close Guantanamo Bay and End Torture
Obama Lie #16
I am Somebody who Promotes Same-Sex Marriage
Watch this timeline of Obama flip-flopping on the Same-sex Marriage Issue. Yet another lie.
Obama Lie #17
Promise to Cut Deficit in Half
Soon after Obama took office he pledged that his administrated would cut the deficit in half. Closing in on the last year of his term his pledge made in February of 2009 is laughable, and just another item on his list of lies.
Obama Lie #18
If you like the healthcare plan you have, you can keep it.
Obama Lie #19
Obama Claims Border Fence Basically Complete but Its Only 5% Finished
They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a build up that began under President Bush and that we have continued. They wanted a fence. Well, that fence is now basically complete.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congresss investigative arm, reported in early 2009 that only 32 miles of double-layer fencing had been built. That means under President Obama, only 4.3 miles of double layer fencing has been built. This is woefully inadequate.
Obama Lie #20
We got back Every Dime we Used to Rescue the Banks with Interest
The Congressional Budget Officebased on figures from Obamas own Office of Management and Budgetgives a different assessment.
The cost to the federal government of the TARPs transactions (also referred to as the subsidy cost), including grants for mortgage programs that have not yet been made, will amount to $24 billion, said the CBO report, which was released on the same day Obama spoke.
Source: CNSNews.com
Obama Lie #21
Oath of Office (January 20th, 2009)
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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Dec 26, 2013 13:23:48 #
A Look Back at Obamas Healthcare Promises
The government is in shutdown, and the first days of Obamacare are here. October first saw the opening of the healthcare exchange and the launch of the exchange website. After its launch, the website came crashing down. High traffic and severe technical problems have brought the website to a standstill. This has made the unpopular law even more unpopular and has effected President Obamas now all-time low approval rating, which is now at 37%. With the public now focusing on Obamacare and trying to find the merits among the many faults, we are going to go back and evaluate a couple of healthcare promises that the President made:
You can keep your current plan
As comforting as this statement was when President Obama made it, he had no idea of the economics behind the scenes. Take a look at just a couple of companies like IBM and Time Warner. IBM is now dropping tens of thousands of Retirees from their health insurance plan, and telling them to find another provider of insurance.
Companies are now beginning to cut the hours of their employees in order to avoid the 30 hour full-time threshold. For larger companies, once the 30 hour work week is passed, they have to provide healthcare to their employees. Take a look at the fast food industry. Companies across the country are cutting employees hours to part-time in order to save on insurance costs.
Lower health care premiums by $2,500
If you want the answer to this question, ask people around you if their premiums have gone down. Across the country the exact opposite is happening. Premiums are rising, and its foolish for the president to say that after adding millions of new people to the health care systems the premiums will go down.According to Forbes, Obamacare will increase the premium of an individual by 99% for men, and 62% for women.
The government is in shutdown, and the first days of Obamacare are here. October first saw the opening of the healthcare exchange and the launch of the exchange website. After its launch, the website came crashing down. High traffic and severe technical problems have brought the website to a standstill. This has made the unpopular law even more unpopular and has effected President Obamas now all-time low approval rating, which is now at 37%. With the public now focusing on Obamacare and trying to find the merits among the many faults, we are going to go back and evaluate a couple of healthcare promises that the President made:
You can keep your current plan
As comforting as this statement was when President Obama made it, he had no idea of the economics behind the scenes. Take a look at just a couple of companies like IBM and Time Warner. IBM is now dropping tens of thousands of Retirees from their health insurance plan, and telling them to find another provider of insurance.
Companies are now beginning to cut the hours of their employees in order to avoid the 30 hour full-time threshold. For larger companies, once the 30 hour work week is passed, they have to provide healthcare to their employees. Take a look at the fast food industry. Companies across the country are cutting employees hours to part-time in order to save on insurance costs.
Lower health care premiums by $2,500
If you want the answer to this question, ask people around you if their premiums have gone down. Across the country the exact opposite is happening. Premiums are rising, and its foolish for the president to say that after adding millions of new people to the health care systems the premiums will go down.According to Forbes, Obamacare will increase the premium of an individual by 99% for men, and 62% for women.
Dec 26, 2013 13:23:52 #
Four More Insane Years
Submitted by: GREGORY H. B.
With the re-election of Barack Obama, the United States has officially become a banana republic. From a nation that produced patriots like Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy, we have knowingly selected the lowest common denominator as our commander in chief.
From China to Iran, the enemies of freedom can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as the citizens of the United States have placed an empty suit at the helm of state. To think the American people would select Barack Obama over a man like Mitt Romney is a national embarrassment that we will not soon overcome.
Never in history has a nation so great fallen so far, so fast, as ours did on Nov. 6, 2012. Albert Einstein said, The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Using this definition, anyone who expects anything different from Obama must surely be insane.
Submitted by: GREGORY H. B.
With the re-election of Barack Obama, the United States has officially become a banana republic. From a nation that produced patriots like Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy, we have knowingly selected the lowest common denominator as our commander in chief.
From China to Iran, the enemies of freedom can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as the citizens of the United States have placed an empty suit at the helm of state. To think the American people would select Barack Obama over a man like Mitt Romney is a national embarrassment that we will not soon overcome.
Never in history has a nation so great fallen so far, so fast, as ours did on Nov. 6, 2012. Albert Einstein said, The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Using this definition, anyone who expects anything different from Obama must surely be insane.
Dec 27, 2013 09:04:32 #
Obama is guilty of: Treason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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U.S. Code Title 18 Part I Chapter 115 § 2381
18 U.S. CODE § 2381 - TREASON
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Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than 5 years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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U.S. Code Title 18 Part I Chapter 115 § 2381
18 U.S. CODE § 2381 - TREASON
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Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than 5 years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Dec 27, 2013 09:29:28 #
EPA Pushes Gun Control Through Green Ammo Mandate
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EPA Pushes Gun Control Through Green Ammo Mandate
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December 27, 2013
Gun Control: Thanks to government regulations, the closing of the last U.S. lead smelter and a push for green lead-free ammunition, ammo prices will skyrocket. Does the Second Amendment threaten the environment?
Image: Ammunition (Wikimedia Commons).
Having been stymied by court defeats such as the Supreme Courts deciding that the Second Amendment does indeed confer a right to keep and bear arms on individuals throughout the United States, advocates of a gun-free America and a disarmed citizenry are taking a different approach: Go after the ammunition through regulations that stifle domestic production and force the use of more expensive and eco-friendly substitutes.
Expanded regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency have forced the closing as of Dec. 31 of the countrys last bullet-producing lead smelter a facility operated by Doe Run Co. in Herculaneum, Mo., that first opened its doors in 1892. As a result of the closure, a company press release notes, 145 Doe Run employees and some 73 contractors will lose their jobs.
Full article here
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/122613-684284-epa-gun-control-through-green-ammunition-mandates.htm
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EPA Pushes Gun Control Through Green Ammo Mandate
The Alex Jones Channel Alex Jones Show podcast Prison Planet TV Infowars.com Twitter Alex Jones' Facebook Infowars store
Investors.com
December 27, 2013
Gun Control: Thanks to government regulations, the closing of the last U.S. lead smelter and a push for green lead-free ammunition, ammo prices will skyrocket. Does the Second Amendment threaten the environment?
Image: Ammunition (Wikimedia Commons).
Having been stymied by court defeats such as the Supreme Courts deciding that the Second Amendment does indeed confer a right to keep and bear arms on individuals throughout the United States, advocates of a gun-free America and a disarmed citizenry are taking a different approach: Go after the ammunition through regulations that stifle domestic production and force the use of more expensive and eco-friendly substitutes.
Expanded regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency have forced the closing as of Dec. 31 of the countrys last bullet-producing lead smelter a facility operated by Doe Run Co. in Herculaneum, Mo., that first opened its doors in 1892. As a result of the closure, a company press release notes, 145 Doe Run employees and some 73 contractors will lose their jobs.
Full article here
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/122613-684284-epa-gun-control-through-green-ammunition-mandates.htm
Dec 27, 2013 09:35:16 #
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Combat Training Principles: Secrets For Staying Alive When 'Rules' Don't Apply
It's Either You, or Him
Someone's going to get it right first. Someone's going to get stabbed in the neck, and someone's going to be doing the stabbing. So... In a life-or-death situation, which do you pick? While 'none of the above' is the hands-down best choice, that's not always an option. So of the two, 'do' or 'get done,' which one is you? Yes, it's a stupid question--when given such a stark, limited choice we'll all choose to be the one doing it, right? And yet, unless you're actually training to be the one doing it, you won't pick the obvious answer, even though you know in your gut it's the right one. When viewed through a social lens, taking into account self-defense laws, societal mores, and even spiritual concerns, 'hitting first' is wrong. It's aggressive, offensive, and only the 'bad guys' do it--it's a defining feature of the violent criminal. When taken at face value, the facts of violence show that second place is first loser. The first one to get it right--the first one to cause a serious injury and take advantage of that fact--is almost always the winner. The first one to take an eye, break a leg or bounce a head off the concrete usually gets the chance to do it again. Training to wait and see, to block and counter is training to die. It's training to let the other guy dictate what happens--it puts him in charge and sets you up for disaster. It puts you permanently a half-step behind. Such training causes people to try to block having just been stabbed--they get stabbed, they try to block it as he pulls the knife out and sticks it in them again, they try to block that over and over and so on to the inevitable end.
Violence, as a survival tool, has but one purpose--shutting off a human brain. To that end you have to focus your efforts on injuring the other man. Instead of worrying about what he's going to do to you, you want to make him worry about what you're doing to him. Hit first, break things, and keep going until you're finished with him. (Now, context is everything--violence, the way I'm talking about it, is only appropriate where you could expect him to do the same to you if you didn't act, and where inaction could cost you your life. It's stupid to do this to someone over a barstool... but it becomes chillingly 'normal' during a workplace shooting.)
It's simple cause and effect. You can either:
1) ACT to cause injuries in him, or
2) REACT to what he's doing, setting yourself up for failure.
It's funny how when this is presented as it was in the beginning of this letter (stab or be stabbed?), everyone agrees that the choice is obvious; whereas when it's time to train everyone gets into their defensive 'fighting' stance and wants to wait and see what the other guy's going to do.
There is no scale to the facts of violence--either you're the one doing it, or the one getting done. Period. Guns, knives, sticks, fists & boots... it doesn't matter. You're either on him or he's on you. Injury is the fact that makes the difference. If you don't know how to reliably cause crippling injury, and what to do with it, I don't blame you for wanting to ball up and hang back. Without injury violence is a chaotic crapshoot. But once you know how to ACT on him to make him REACT--once you know how to injure him & drop him so he can't get back up, once you know how to cripple a criminal who was dead-set on doing it to you, so that he has NO CHOICE in what happens next, well, then you'll understand what I'm talking about and you'll always want to be the one doing it first.
Knowledge breeds confidence--the confidence to be the one doing it instead of the one getting done. Knowing how to injure a man--and knowing what to do with that injury--is the shortest route to victory in life-or-death violence. Until next time, Tim Larkin Creator of Target-Focus Training
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Self Defense Report #3:
Combat Training Principles: Secrets For Staying Alive When 'Rules' Don't Apply
It's Either You, or Him
Someone's going to get it right first. Someone's going to get stabbed in the neck, and someone's going to be doing the stabbing. So... In a life-or-death situation, which do you pick? While 'none of the above' is the hands-down best choice, that's not always an option. So of the two, 'do' or 'get done,' which one is you? Yes, it's a stupid question--when given such a stark, limited choice we'll all choose to be the one doing it, right? And yet, unless you're actually training to be the one doing it, you won't pick the obvious answer, even though you know in your gut it's the right one. When viewed through a social lens, taking into account self-defense laws, societal mores, and even spiritual concerns, 'hitting first' is wrong. It's aggressive, offensive, and only the 'bad guys' do it--it's a defining feature of the violent criminal. When taken at face value, the facts of violence show that second place is first loser. The first one to get it right--the first one to cause a serious injury and take advantage of that fact--is almost always the winner. The first one to take an eye, break a leg or bounce a head off the concrete usually gets the chance to do it again. Training to wait and see, to block and counter is training to die. It's training to let the other guy dictate what happens--it puts him in charge and sets you up for disaster. It puts you permanently a half-step behind. Such training causes people to try to block having just been stabbed--they get stabbed, they try to block it as he pulls the knife out and sticks it in them again, they try to block that over and over and so on to the inevitable end.
Violence, as a survival tool, has but one purpose--shutting off a human brain. To that end you have to focus your efforts on injuring the other man. Instead of worrying about what he's going to do to you, you want to make him worry about what you're doing to him. Hit first, break things, and keep going until you're finished with him. (Now, context is everything--violence, the way I'm talking about it, is only appropriate where you could expect him to do the same to you if you didn't act, and where inaction could cost you your life. It's stupid to do this to someone over a barstool... but it becomes chillingly 'normal' during a workplace shooting.)
It's simple cause and effect. You can either:
1) ACT to cause injuries in him, or
2) REACT to what he's doing, setting yourself up for failure.
It's funny how when this is presented as it was in the beginning of this letter (stab or be stabbed?), everyone agrees that the choice is obvious; whereas when it's time to train everyone gets into their defensive 'fighting' stance and wants to wait and see what the other guy's going to do.
There is no scale to the facts of violence--either you're the one doing it, or the one getting done. Period. Guns, knives, sticks, fists & boots... it doesn't matter. You're either on him or he's on you. Injury is the fact that makes the difference. If you don't know how to reliably cause crippling injury, and what to do with it, I don't blame you for wanting to ball up and hang back. Without injury violence is a chaotic crapshoot. But once you know how to ACT on him to make him REACT--once you know how to injure him & drop him so he can't get back up, once you know how to cripple a criminal who was dead-set on doing it to you, so that he has NO CHOICE in what happens next, well, then you'll understand what I'm talking about and you'll always want to be the one doing it first.
Knowledge breeds confidence--the confidence to be the one doing it instead of the one getting done. Knowing how to injure a man--and knowing what to do with that injury--is the shortest route to victory in life-or-death violence. Until next time, Tim Larkin Creator of Target-Focus Training
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Dec 27, 2013 09:37:55 #
15 Things Politicians Must Stop Saying In 2014
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Kristin Tate
BenSwann.com
December 27, 2013
We should all be wary of almost everything career politicians tell us. But when certain words come out of our elected officials mouths, I really want to dry heave. Here are 15 overused bureaucratic terms and their politically-mutated definitions.
Image: State of the Union (Wikimedia Commons).
Compassion
A term used by free-spending liberals who want to give your hard-earned money to their constituents.
Radical
A volatile, mud-slinging term that means absolutely nothing and is used to whip up the emotions of the ignorant electorate.
Mean Spirited
A generic term used by the left to define anybody to the right of them.
UnAmerican
A generic term used by the right to define anybody to the left of them.
Carbon Footprint
Self-righteous lefties repeat this to sound important instead of simply saying pollution.
Fairness
The belief that nobody should have more than anybody else, regardless of work ethic or skill sets.
For the Children
When you hear this term, hold on to your wallets we all know what this means.
Any word proceeded by Holiday
Those are not Holiday presents in my Holiday stockings and under my Holiday tree, you moron.
The 1 Percenters
Those evil, capitalistic pigs who work 70+ hours per week to make more than the person using the term.
Pro-family
A sanctimonious Republican term meant to stir up low-information voters whos anti-family?
Gun Nuts
What angry liberals call Republicans who support the Second Amendment.
Greedy
The adjective bestowed upon those who work hard to earn money, but refuse to give it to those who dont.
Investment
When politicians say We need to make an investment, they really mean, I want to spend YOUR money on MY agenda.
Libtards
An ignorant term used to describe any Democrat by emotionally unstable Republicans.
Racist
An accusation used by liberals when theyre losing a debate on any topic.
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Kristin Tate
BenSwann.com
December 27, 2013
We should all be wary of almost everything career politicians tell us. But when certain words come out of our elected officials mouths, I really want to dry heave. Here are 15 overused bureaucratic terms and their politically-mutated definitions.
Image: State of the Union (Wikimedia Commons).
Compassion
A term used by free-spending liberals who want to give your hard-earned money to their constituents.
Radical
A volatile, mud-slinging term that means absolutely nothing and is used to whip up the emotions of the ignorant electorate.
Mean Spirited
A generic term used by the left to define anybody to the right of them.
UnAmerican
A generic term used by the right to define anybody to the left of them.
Carbon Footprint
Self-righteous lefties repeat this to sound important instead of simply saying pollution.
Fairness
The belief that nobody should have more than anybody else, regardless of work ethic or skill sets.
For the Children
When you hear this term, hold on to your wallets we all know what this means.
Any word proceeded by Holiday
Those are not Holiday presents in my Holiday stockings and under my Holiday tree, you moron.
The 1 Percenters
Those evil, capitalistic pigs who work 70+ hours per week to make more than the person using the term.
Pro-family
A sanctimonious Republican term meant to stir up low-information voters whos anti-family?
Gun Nuts
What angry liberals call Republicans who support the Second Amendment.
Greedy
The adjective bestowed upon those who work hard to earn money, but refuse to give it to those who dont.
Investment
When politicians say We need to make an investment, they really mean, I want to spend YOUR money on MY agenda.
Libtards
An ignorant term used to describe any Democrat by emotionally unstable Republicans.
Racist
An accusation used by liberals when theyre losing a debate on any topic.
Dec 27, 2013 14:44:46 #
Dec 28, 2013 08:13:40 #
Navys ocean-powered drones to wage underwater war
Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:25 PM PST
While American drones patrol the skies in war-torn countries like Afghanistan, the United States is also looking to establish a similar presence in the worlds oceans by using underwater drones.
The new ocean-faring drones, called Slocum Gliders, wont need fuel to function like their aerial counterparts do. Instead, theyll power themselves with the ocean current itself, stealthily scanning the surrounding area and feeding information back to other military vessels.
Using a process dubbed hydraulic buoyancy, the Glider can adjust its density based on the water around it. This allows the drone to sink lower or raise itself up among the ocean currents, moving at a speed of up to one mile (1.6 km) an hour.
According to a report by Time, the Navy is currently planning to send one of these gliders on a five-year test run. The drones are named after Captain Joshua Slocum, who became the first man to single-handedly sail around the entire world in the late 1800s.
Currently, the gliders gather data related to the surrounding water, which can be used to effectively calibrate sonar. A new $203,000 contract with Teledyne Webb Research, however, has the potential to add more capabilities to the machines. Eventually, the Navy hopes that a group of gliders will be able to detect underwater mines and enemy submarines in the event of war.
Carrying a wide variety of sensors, they can be programmed to patrol for weeks at a time, surfacing to transmit their data to shore while downloading new instructions at regular intervals, realizing a substantial cost savings compared to traditional surface ships, reads the Slocum Glider page on Teledynes website.
The gliders were first commissioned by the Navy in 2009, when it invested just over $56 million for up to 150 Littoral Battleship-Sensing gliders. These are scheduled to arrive in 2014, and according to Time, the Navy is hoping they will be used for mine countermeasures and other tasks important to expeditionary warfare ultimately reducing or eliminating the need for sailors and Marines to enter the dangerous shallow waters just off shore in order to clear mines in preparation for expeditionary operations.
Meanwhile, a NATO report from last year explored the possibility that gliders could be launched directly from submarines instead of surface ships.
Operating gliders from submarines represents a step forward to embedding this technology into naval operations, the report said. Unlike surface ships, submarines are stealth platforms that could transit denied areas while releasing a glider fleet, the report stated.
Even as the US expands its surveillance capabilities under the sea, it is also using the ocean to boost its fleet of airborne drones. Earlier this month, RT reported that the Navy successfully launched an aerial drone into the sky from a submerged submarine
Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:25 PM PST
While American drones patrol the skies in war-torn countries like Afghanistan, the United States is also looking to establish a similar presence in the worlds oceans by using underwater drones.
The new ocean-faring drones, called Slocum Gliders, wont need fuel to function like their aerial counterparts do. Instead, theyll power themselves with the ocean current itself, stealthily scanning the surrounding area and feeding information back to other military vessels.
Using a process dubbed hydraulic buoyancy, the Glider can adjust its density based on the water around it. This allows the drone to sink lower or raise itself up among the ocean currents, moving at a speed of up to one mile (1.6 km) an hour.
According to a report by Time, the Navy is currently planning to send one of these gliders on a five-year test run. The drones are named after Captain Joshua Slocum, who became the first man to single-handedly sail around the entire world in the late 1800s.
Currently, the gliders gather data related to the surrounding water, which can be used to effectively calibrate sonar. A new $203,000 contract with Teledyne Webb Research, however, has the potential to add more capabilities to the machines. Eventually, the Navy hopes that a group of gliders will be able to detect underwater mines and enemy submarines in the event of war.
Carrying a wide variety of sensors, they can be programmed to patrol for weeks at a time, surfacing to transmit their data to shore while downloading new instructions at regular intervals, realizing a substantial cost savings compared to traditional surface ships, reads the Slocum Glider page on Teledynes website.
The gliders were first commissioned by the Navy in 2009, when it invested just over $56 million for up to 150 Littoral Battleship-Sensing gliders. These are scheduled to arrive in 2014, and according to Time, the Navy is hoping they will be used for mine countermeasures and other tasks important to expeditionary warfare ultimately reducing or eliminating the need for sailors and Marines to enter the dangerous shallow waters just off shore in order to clear mines in preparation for expeditionary operations.
Meanwhile, a NATO report from last year explored the possibility that gliders could be launched directly from submarines instead of surface ships.
Operating gliders from submarines represents a step forward to embedding this technology into naval operations, the report said. Unlike surface ships, submarines are stealth platforms that could transit denied areas while releasing a glider fleet, the report stated.
Even as the US expands its surveillance capabilities under the sea, it is also using the ocean to boost its fleet of airborne drones. Earlier this month, RT reported that the Navy successfully launched an aerial drone into the sky from a submerged submarine
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