Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for May 7, 2013
Robert A. Hall
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The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
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Heritage puts $6.3T price tag on Senate immigration bill
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/297907-heritage-senate-immigration-bills-price-tag-is-63t
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/297907-heritage-senate-immigration-bills-price-tag-is-63t
Excerpt: Legalizing an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants will cost taxpayers at least $6.3 trillion over the coming decades, according to a study released Monday by the Heritage Foundation. The study projects illegal immigrants would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and pay only $3.1 trillion in taxes over their lifetimes if they gain lawful status under comprehensive immigration reform pending in the Senate.
Clinton sought end-run around counter-terrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say
Excerpt: On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a "whistle-blower" witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.
Excerpt: As the day for three Benghazi
Excerpt: Apparently, Obama told Delta Force operators and a special Marine FAST unit (both Tier One Special Operations) to hold off on coming to the aid of Woods and Doherty. Woods also specifically requested aid from a nearby C-130 aircraft that was meant for deep firefights like the one at the annex. Inexplicably, Allmon says Obama also turned down this request.
Obama Administration’s Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up
Excerpt: Flaming skull alert at Ace of Spades for the release of e-mails confirming that (a) officials knew from the outset that the attack on the consulate in Libya was the work of terrorists, but (b) this information was suppressed for political purposes: State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland, worried that members of Congress would use the talking points to criticize the State Department for “not paying attention to [CIA] warnings.” So, it was CIA vs. C.Y.A. at the State Department which, quite frankly, has been infiltrated by Edward Said-influenced Arab specialists to such an extent that it was practically a Muslim Brotherhood outpost even before the Obama administration took over.
BENGHAZIGATE: Obama’s Secret Gun-Running Program
Excerpt: We now know that President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David Petraeus were likely behind a mishandled gun-trafficking program that ended up arming the radical jihadist rebels who stormed the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi , Libya
Excerpt: “And hell is what is coming, one way or the other, because this time — unlike the Clinton impeachment — the big dogs are in play, in the form of hordes of very pissed-off special ops agents, patriotic spooks, forcibly retired generals and clandestine operatives who know where the bodies are buried. If the Obama administration turned its back on Chris Stevens and the three other brave Americans who died that day for crass political purposes — and, worse, if it let them die as collateral damage in its own gunrunning operation to Syria — the men and women who stand watch for this country all through the night are going to come out of the shadows, quickly.”
Official: We knew Benghazi
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Excerpt… “Chris - Chris 's last report, if you want to say his final report - is, 'Greg, we are under attack.'” "...I've never been as embarrassed in my life, in my career, as on that day," Hicks continued in his interview with investigators. "The net impact of what has transpired is, [Rice,] the spokesperson of the most powerful country in the world, has basically said that the president of Libya
Excerpt: Hicks is scheduled to testify Wednesday before that committee, along with other witnesses who are expected to cast doubt on the administration’s narrative about the attack. In his written testimony, Hicks – who was in Tripoli when the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told "you can't go" to Benghazi
Excerpt: The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi
Bill Ayers defends Weather Underground bombings
Excerpt: Bill Ayers says people can’t equate the bombings that he and others in the Weather Underground did 40 or so years ago with the April 15 twin bombings in Boston Kent State
Their War, Not Ours. By Patrick J. Buchanan
Excerpt: And if Barack Obama plunges into Syria ’s civil war, it could consume his presidency, even as Iraq
Funding Phantom Students: State policies insulate districts from making tough decisions. By Marguerite Roza and Jon Fullerton
Excerpt: Massachusetts
Streamlined Obamacare Application Leaves Program Open To Insurance Fraud
Excerpt: Last month, the Federal government floated a 61-page draft application that people would use to sign up for Obamacare’s financial subsidies. After a political rebuke over the form’s length, the Department of Health and Human Services has released a streamlined, 3-page version of the same application. The rub? The government’s new form is going to be an invitation to fraud and abuse.
Big Pharma Accomplishes Big Things, Yet Obama Is Suffocating The Industry. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: That half-trillion dollars of research has yielded more than 400 new medicines. Unfortunately, President Obama appears intent on grinding pharmaceutical research to a halt. His proposed budget would slap price controls on prescription drugs, thereby depriving the sector of billions of dollars in revenue. That’s on top of the tens of billions in new taxes Obamacare assesses on the industry.
The More Businesses Learn About Obamacare, The More Reluctant They Are To Hire. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: Wondering why the unemployment rate has been near or above 8 percent for nearly four years? The Federal Reserve has an answer for you: Obamacare.
Housing nominee Mel Watt helped create the subprime crisis
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/05/housing-nominee-mel-watt-helped-create-the-subprime-crisis/#ixzz2SW8xYaWr
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/05/housing-nominee-mel-watt-helped-create-the-subprime-crisis/#ixzz2SW8xYaWr
Excerpt: Mel Watt, President Obama’s nominee for director of the Federal Housing Finance North Carolina
Racism: Democrat who vowed to send Nikki Haley ‘back to wherever the hell she came from’ a major Obama fundraiser
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/06/democrat-who-vowed-to-send-nikki-haley-back-to-wherever-the-hell-she-came-from-a-major-obama-fundraiser/#ixzz2SW9KKxGS
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/06/democrat-who-vowed-to-send-nikki-haley-back-to-wherever-the-hell-she-came-from-a-major-obama-fundraiser/#ixzz2SW9KKxGS
Excerpt: South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian, who said Friday that he intends to help send Indian-American Republican Gov. Nikki Haley “back to wherever the hell she came from,” was a major campaign bundler who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Barack Obama, records reveal. Obama has yet to condemn Harpootlian’s statement, which a Haley spokesman called “the lowest common denominator.”
Excerpt: Israel ’s air force is reported to have attacked last Thursday a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Iran that were believed to be on their way to Hezbollah in Lebanon Israel struck Iranian-supplied missiles headed for Hezbollah again, this time in the vicinity of the Jamraya complex, Syria
Official: U.S. Syria Airstrikes After the Fact: Intelligence official says the U.S. was not given any warning before the airstrikes in Syria allegedly carried out by Israel
Don't trust Obama. Smart. ~Bob. Excerpt: A U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday that the United States was not given any warning before the recent airstrikes in Syria , that were allegedly carried out by Israel Israel was behind the attacks, but said that the United States
Obama’s Big Brotherhood Bet. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Obama was following through on an idea that had long been an article of faith on the left. The idea was that the United States
Excerpt: Testimony from victims of the Syrian conflict suggests rebels have used the nerve agent sarin, according to a leading United Nations investigator. Carla del Ponte told Swiss TV there were "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof".
UN: Rebels, not Assad, appear to have used chemical weapons
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/297853-un-rebels-not-assad-appear-to-have-used-chemical-weapons-in-syria#ixzz2SUIodGx9
Excerpt: United Nations human rights investigators said Sunday they have gathered testimony from outside Syria suggesting rebels, not Bashar Assad's regime, may have used chemical weapons. “Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Carla Del Ponte, a member of the independent commission of inquiry on Syria, told Swiss-Italian television. “This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities.” (Felt this. Assad would not do this; it would bring the wrath of the world on him and his country. And he still coexists withChris tians. So who is supplying the Syrian rebels, MB? --Barb)
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/297853-un-rebels-not-assad-appear-to-have-used-chemical-weapons-in-syria#ixzz2SUIodGx9
Excerpt: United Nations human rights investigators said Sunday they have gathered testimony from outside Syria suggesting rebels, not Bashar Assad's regime, may have used chemical weapons. “Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Carla Del Ponte, a member of the independent commission of inquiry on Syria, told Swiss-Italian television. “This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities.” (Felt this. Assad would not do this; it would bring the wrath of the world on him and his country. And he still coexists with
Karzai Says He Was Assured C.I.A. Would Continue Delivering Bags of Cash
Excerpt: The C.I.A.’s station chief here met with President Hamid Karzai on Saturday, and the Afghan leader said he had been assured that the agency would continue dropping off stacks of cash at his office despite a storm of criticism that has erupted since the payments were disclosed.
7 American service members killed in Afghanistan
They are now dying only to save face for Obama, not to win. Past time to go. ~Bob. Excerpt: Seven U.S. soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans and other foreign troops in Afghanistan
No 'Happy Easter': The Muslim Brotherhood's Bizarre Religious Intolerance
Obama's friends. ~Bob. Excerpt: Yet because Morsi's decision comes on the heels of a Brotherhood fatwa prohibiting Muslims from wishing Chris tians a "Happy Easter," Morsi's coldness towards Chris tians reflects a central paradox of the Brotherhood's Islamism: despite its longtime promise to "implement the sharia" upon achieving power, the Brotherhood only offers specific interpretations of Islamic legal principles when it needs to justify its most intolerant impulses.
Five men jailed for sexually exploiting maid. Woman fell off balcony and left seriously injured while trying to escape human trafficking ring
Can't condemn them--it's their culture. The Holy Qur'an endorses sex slavery. ~Bob.
Excerpt: Oddly enough, Western feminists are completely silent about this. Actually, it isn't odd at all.
Graduate from Saudi jihadi rehab program killed in Syrian jihad: "killed a large number of Chris tians before his acceptance by God"
Excerpt: After spending two years in Saudi prison for fighting in Iraq Chris tians before his acceptance by God," said the notice, which appeared on a Facebook FB -2.27% page—"Foreigners in theSyrian [sic] Revolution"—that anonymously records and lauds foreigners killed fighting Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
Carbon tax backers quietly forge ahead
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/297751-carbon-tax-backers-quietly-forge-ahead#ixzz2SULctCkO
Excerpt: Activists are quietly forging ahead with their campaign for carbon taxes despite long odds on Capitol Hill. Bob Inglis, a former GOP House member from South Carolina
Floridians Told To Report Their Neighbors Who Are Anti-Government
Excerpt: There’s a brand new $1 million dollar program being put together by Palm Beach County Florida’s Sheriff, Ric Bradshaw. It’s objective? To get friends and neighbors to snitch on people who ‘hate government.’ According to the Palm Beach Post, “Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services, if needed.” (Article adds: “What next? Are we going to see dissidents carted off to ‘mental hospitals’ like the good old days in Soviet Russia?” So much for Free Speech versus PC. --Barb)
Excerpt: Chicago
9.5 Million People Have Left the Workforce Under Obama. By Elizabeth Harrington
Excerpt: 9.5 million Americans have left the workforce during the presidency of Barack Obama, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
My week in the online terror underworld
Excerpt: ...it seemed implausible that the Web had somehow made Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into jihadists. But it did strike me that the world of online jihad could have had another effect on the Boston
It’s Not About Syria , Stupid (Think Iran and Russia
Excerpt: As information about the apparent Israeli strikes on targets inside Syria Syria , the mission was primarily a major strike against Iran and Russia Damascus
Six Md.
Excerpt: Six veterans have pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges after receiving payments for falsely claiming exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office. They obtained a combined total of more than $500,000 in cash and tax benefits after allegedly paying Maryland Veterans Administration employee David Clark, 68, to falsify their claims, according to Maryland
Tweet from BOB @PIRATE177516m
"I wish there was a 'morning after pill' for this administration." ~ Greg Gutfield
SEC charges PA’s capital city with fraud
Another Democrat run paradise. ~Bob. Excerpt: Federal investigators say city of Harrisburg Harrisburg
Tweet from David Burge @iowahawkblog34m
These so-called Benghazi
Excerpt: The Obama administration will have a hard time cobbling together even a modicum of popular support for the (inevitable, IMO) U.S. military intervention into Syria
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