An interview in the Jerusalem Post with CIA operative Clare Lopez.
She makes a convincing case that the Obama Administration:
1. Hung those poor men out to dry, and deliberately let them die at that embassy, knowing all along it was an organized attack, not a riot gone out of control, because...
2. The Administration has been running guns to Al Qaeda from Libya...which are showing up in Gaza, Mali, and Syria.
3. Is intent on making certain we don't let numbers 1 and 2 sink in before next Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Dorothy Rabinowitz Defines Barack Obama
Great writing distills the essence of a situation, pulling together references and experiences from all points of the compass. This article, by Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal, is great writing.
OS is simultaneously grateful for her work, and profoundly envious. He's never come close to this level of craft. Still, he proudly share this essay with you, because she puts her finger on the pulse of the Obama administration, and unblinkingly relates what she concludes:
In the 1967 film "A Guide for the Married Man," a husband, played by a peerless Walter Matthau, is given lessons in ways to cheat on his wife safely. The most essential rule: "Deny! Deny! Deny!"—no matter what. In an instructive scene, he's shown a wife undone by shock, and screaming, with reason: She has just walked in on her husband making love to a glamorous stranger.
"What are you doing," she wails, "who is that woman?"
"What woman, where?" the husband serenely counters, as he and the tart in question get out of bed and calmly dress.
So the scene proceeds, with the distraught wife pointing to the woman she clearly sees before her, while her husband, unruffled, continues to look blankly at her, asking, "What woman?" Confused by her spouse's unblinking assurance, she gives up. Two minutes later she's asking him what he'd like for dinner.
For much of the past four years, the Obama administration's propensity for asserting views of reality wildly at odds with those evident to most rational citizens has looked increasingly like a page from that film script.
Ms. Rabinowitz has nailed it. On. The. Head.
Bulls-eye. Full marks. 10 for 10.
God bless her.
OS is simultaneously grateful for her work, and profoundly envious. He's never come close to this level of craft. Still, he proudly share this essay with you, because she puts her finger on the pulse of the Obama administration, and unblinkingly relates what she concludes:
In the 1967 film "A Guide for the Married Man," a husband, played by a peerless Walter Matthau, is given lessons in ways to cheat on his wife safely. The most essential rule: "Deny! Deny! Deny!"—no matter what. In an instructive scene, he's shown a wife undone by shock, and screaming, with reason: She has just walked in on her husband making love to a glamorous stranger.
"What are you doing," she wails, "who is that woman?"
"What woman, where?" the husband serenely counters, as he and the tart in question get out of bed and calmly dress.
So the scene proceeds, with the distraught wife pointing to the woman she clearly sees before her, while her husband, unruffled, continues to look blankly at her, asking, "What woman?" Confused by her spouse's unblinking assurance, she gives up. Two minutes later she's asking him what he'd like for dinner.
For much of the past four years, the Obama administration's propensity for asserting views of reality wildly at odds with those evident to most rational citizens has looked increasingly like a page from that film script.
Ms. Rabinowitz has nailed it. On. The. Head.
Bulls-eye. Full marks. 10 for 10.
God bless her.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Main Things, Plain Things: A Few Simple Ideas To Remember As November Approaches
There is a wonderful Scots preacher who holds forth in Cleveland, Ohio, by the name of Alistair Begg.
Amongst his pithy gems of wisdom, he returns often to this statement:
Let's keep the main thing the plain thing, and the plain thing the main thing.
In the coming days, it is going to get seriously crazy. There will likely be October Surprises pulled by the Obama Campaign. Past examples include forged documents about George W. Bush seeking to avoid military service--that was a gem! Also, a DUI from when GW was 26 years old, a time of his life he had previously freely admitted was marked by his excesses.
The Obama campaign, as Leftists do, will attempt to sow confusion. Remember Florida in 2000, hanging chads, etc.? After the dust had settled, three separate audits of results were undertaken, one by the YewNorkTimez. All three confirmed Bush won. That news never made the front pages, did it?
So, OS offers a few Plain Things to keep in mind when the excrement begins to contact the air circulation device:
We are 16 TRILLION dollars in debt, a huge part of that created in the past four years. There is NO plan to address this forthcoming from the Democrats. The Senate, controlled by that party, has passed NO budget in three years. The Senate and the current occupant of the White House both must be changed in order to save the Republic.
Food Stamp usage has soared, with no plan to reverse the trajectory.
Women are viewed as convenient idiots by Duh Left, and this woman calls them out on it.
Massive bank fraud continues, there have been no prosecutions, and will never be under Eric Holder.
And if you read nothing else of what OS offers, read this, and pass it along if you are so moved.
We don't have to put up with this nonsense. It will take a long time to undo the damage.
No time like the present to begin.
In the meantime, don't get distracted by the noise emanating from Campaign Obama.
Amongst his pithy gems of wisdom, he returns often to this statement:
Let's keep the main thing the plain thing, and the plain thing the main thing.
In the coming days, it is going to get seriously crazy. There will likely be October Surprises pulled by the Obama Campaign. Past examples include forged documents about George W. Bush seeking to avoid military service--that was a gem! Also, a DUI from when GW was 26 years old, a time of his life he had previously freely admitted was marked by his excesses.
The Obama campaign, as Leftists do, will attempt to sow confusion. Remember Florida in 2000, hanging chads, etc.? After the dust had settled, three separate audits of results were undertaken, one by the YewNorkTimez. All three confirmed Bush won. That news never made the front pages, did it?
So, OS offers a few Plain Things to keep in mind when the excrement begins to contact the air circulation device:
We are 16 TRILLION dollars in debt, a huge part of that created in the past four years. There is NO plan to address this forthcoming from the Democrats. The Senate, controlled by that party, has passed NO budget in three years. The Senate and the current occupant of the White House both must be changed in order to save the Republic.
Food Stamp usage has soared, with no plan to reverse the trajectory.
Women are viewed as convenient idiots by Duh Left, and this woman calls them out on it.
Massive bank fraud continues, there have been no prosecutions, and will never be under Eric Holder.
And if you read nothing else of what OS offers, read this, and pass it along if you are so moved.
We don't have to put up with this nonsense. It will take a long time to undo the damage.
No time like the present to begin.
In the meantime, don't get distracted by the noise emanating from Campaign Obama.
Dear Mr. Romney: When You Discuss Foreign Policy With Himself, You Might Mention That Drug Smugglers Are Driving Across The Arizona Border In Broad Daylight
Just sayin'...
Just ask rancher John Ladd of Arizona.
His San Jose Ranch sits right on the Arizona-Mexico line, ten and a half miles of land stretching from the town of Naco west toward the San Pedro River. Border Patrol has three camera towers on his property, an eye-in-the-sky Cyclops, and sensors hidden in the desert shrubs that activate when smugglers pass. A pedestrian fence (pictured below) blocks the entire ten and a half miles.
None of these security measures have worked.
Since the end of February, Ladd has had at least nine drug drive-throughs across his land involving 21 trucks. The smugglers cut the mesh border fence and pull it down, then ramp over the vehicle barrier just inside it. In most cases they tack-weld the fence back up and brush out tracks to disguise the incursion.
Eight of these episodes occurred in broad daylight, and in two of them the smugglers passed within 50 feet of a camera tower.
The chaos building south of our border, and increasingly spilling over into the heartland of the US, is most definitely a foreign-policy issue, as well as a domestic issue.
Obama's back-door amnesty by executive order this summer, giving the 'get-out-of-jail-free' card to hundreds of thousands of illegals only worsens the situation. Even in OS's county, two days' drive from the border, illegals have been camped here for years, awaiting the Next Amnesty.
This only creates more chaos, giving incentive to flout the law, breaking down civil society.
Which, after all, is the goal of the present administration.
Chaos creates opportunity.
Just ask rancher John Ladd of Arizona.
His San Jose Ranch sits right on the Arizona-Mexico line, ten and a half miles of land stretching from the town of Naco west toward the San Pedro River. Border Patrol has three camera towers on his property, an eye-in-the-sky Cyclops, and sensors hidden in the desert shrubs that activate when smugglers pass. A pedestrian fence (pictured below) blocks the entire ten and a half miles.
None of these security measures have worked.
Since the end of February, Ladd has had at least nine drug drive-throughs across his land involving 21 trucks. The smugglers cut the mesh border fence and pull it down, then ramp over the vehicle barrier just inside it. In most cases they tack-weld the fence back up and brush out tracks to disguise the incursion.
Eight of these episodes occurred in broad daylight, and in two of them the smugglers passed within 50 feet of a camera tower.
The chaos building south of our border, and increasingly spilling over into the heartland of the US, is most definitely a foreign-policy issue, as well as a domestic issue.
Obama's back-door amnesty by executive order this summer, giving the 'get-out-of-jail-free' card to hundreds of thousands of illegals only worsens the situation. Even in OS's county, two days' drive from the border, illegals have been camped here for years, awaiting the Next Amnesty.
This only creates more chaos, giving incentive to flout the law, breaking down civil society.
Which, after all, is the goal of the present administration.
Chaos creates opportunity.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Man. Bites. Dog. The Nashville Tennessean Endorses Romney For President
Loooosey!!! Wha' happened?!!!!
The Nashville Tennessean has been the lap-dog of the Democrat party since time immemorial. They even hired Al Gore Sr.'s ne'er-do'well son as a staff writer back in the day, keeping the boy supported until the family could find him something respectable-looking to do.
That worked out well...
There was not a spending program, entitlement, progressive social cause, or Democrat candidate too stupid or odious to not merit the endorsement of Nashville's morning paper.
OS, and hundreds of thousands of other Tennessean readers, tired of it, and let subscriptions lapse, never to be renewed. The paper kept getting smaller, saying less and less, not even employing decent grammar many times in the past few years.
Only the die-hard Left stuck with it, as the paper kept printing what they so desperately wished to read.
The Fat Lady has begun to vocalize in earnest about Barack Obama when even the most brain-dead of editorial staffs, e.g. the Tennessean, has decided enough is enough.
After several paragraphs of hand-wringing in earnest, here come the words that matter most:
However, for all [Obama's] efforts, ranging from the stimulus package to green-energy development, to bring us out of recession, he has never found the key. He has generally made poor choices of the people needed to get the job done, such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. And the number of jobs created during his term simply has not kept up with demand.
Should President Obama, as some suggested, have devoted his early political capital to jobs and debt reduction and pursuing Wall Street criminals, instead of health reform? Time will tell. But it’s clear whatever shaky bridges were burned in the push for health reform only emboldened Republicans to oppose his subsequent economic proposals. That has rendered much of his presidency ineffective.
Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with a call for hope and change. Perhaps the change he spoke of could only come with the help of Mitt Romney.
Enough is enough is enough is enough...not even the Tennessean can afford to pretend that the country will survive four more years of Obama.
The Nashville Tennessean has been the lap-dog of the Democrat party since time immemorial. They even hired Al Gore Sr.'s ne'er-do'well son as a staff writer back in the day, keeping the boy supported until the family could find him something respectable-looking to do.
That worked out well...
There was not a spending program, entitlement, progressive social cause, or Democrat candidate too stupid or odious to not merit the endorsement of Nashville's morning paper.
OS, and hundreds of thousands of other Tennessean readers, tired of it, and let subscriptions lapse, never to be renewed. The paper kept getting smaller, saying less and less, not even employing decent grammar many times in the past few years.
Only the die-hard Left stuck with it, as the paper kept printing what they so desperately wished to read.
The Fat Lady has begun to vocalize in earnest about Barack Obama when even the most brain-dead of editorial staffs, e.g. the Tennessean, has decided enough is enough.
After several paragraphs of hand-wringing in earnest, here come the words that matter most:
However, for all [Obama's] efforts, ranging from the stimulus package to green-energy development, to bring us out of recession, he has never found the key. He has generally made poor choices of the people needed to get the job done, such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. And the number of jobs created during his term simply has not kept up with demand.
Should President Obama, as some suggested, have devoted his early political capital to jobs and debt reduction and pursuing Wall Street criminals, instead of health reform? Time will tell. But it’s clear whatever shaky bridges were burned in the push for health reform only emboldened Republicans to oppose his subsequent economic proposals. That has rendered much of his presidency ineffective.
Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with a call for hope and change. Perhaps the change he spoke of could only come with the help of Mitt Romney.
Enough is enough is enough is enough...not even the Tennessean can afford to pretend that the country will survive four more years of Obama.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Our Embassies May Be Under Attack, But Rest Assured The Republic Is Safe: Valerie Jarrett's Secret Service Detail
Can't make this stuff up, ya'll.
OS sincerely wishes it weren't true, because it means we are now approaching that day when a Politburo rules, with motorcades of armored limos escorting the PeopleInCharge through the boulevards...
From American Thinker:
Our U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations on Martha's Vineyard.
Why is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority? In their eagerness to serve and protect the political interests of Barack Obama, the news media do not bother to ask and then inform the American people about this administration's particularly peculiar priorities when it comes to security at a time when security is something very much in the news and of great interest to the public.
Conservative outlets which have made inquiries about why some White House staffer merits better protection than U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was accorded are refused answers on the grounds of "security concerns." Really!
Think you might have seen a major media story -- perhaps even a great many of them -- comparing the contrast in security protection between Valerie Jarrett and Ambassador Stevens if George W. Bush were president and it were Karl Rove rather than Valerie Jarrett?
OS sincerely wishes it weren't true, because it means we are now approaching that day when a Politburo rules, with motorcades of armored limos escorting the PeopleInCharge through the boulevards...
From American Thinker:
Our U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations on Martha's Vineyard.
Why is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority? In their eagerness to serve and protect the political interests of Barack Obama, the news media do not bother to ask and then inform the American people about this administration's particularly peculiar priorities when it comes to security at a time when security is something very much in the news and of great interest to the public.
Conservative outlets which have made inquiries about why some White House staffer merits better protection than U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was accorded are refused answers on the grounds of "security concerns." Really!
Think you might have seen a major media story -- perhaps even a great many of them -- comparing the contrast in security protection between Valerie Jarrett and Ambassador Stevens if George W. Bush were president and it were Karl Rove rather than Valerie Jarrett?
Friday, October 19, 2012
The Poster That Says All That Needs Saying About The EU
Amazing...or not really, these days. DanHan weighs in.
Take a close look at this promotional poster. Notice anything? Alongside the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on is one of the wickedest emblems humanity has conceived: the hammer and sickle.
For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags. For hundreds of millions of Europeans, it was a symbol of foreign occupation. Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova have banned its use, and various former communist countries want it to be treated in the same way as Nazi insignia.
Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission, advertising the moral deafness of its author (I hope that's what it is, rather than lingering nostalgia).
The Bolshevist sigil celebrates the ideology which, in strict numerical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ever devised by our species. That it can be passed unremarked day after day in the corridors of Brussels is nauseating.
Remember, ya'll. This is the organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
This organization drinks from the same philosophical waters as the US Democrat party.
Something terribly wrong is at large.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Thank You Cristina Odone, For Speaking Up About The REAL War On Women
Enough, finally, does become enough.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl has been beheaded, by her in-laws, for refusing to become a prostitute. Her mother-in-law and and a hired man cut off Mah Gul's head in the province of Herat last week.
The horrific case has confirmed the plight of women and girls in Taliban-strongholds such as Herat: it comes in the wake of the Taliban's attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for girls' education in Pakistan.
Ms. Odone then goes on to ask:
Surely, enough is enough? How many women martyrs do Muslim leaders need before they speak out against such misogyny?
What she fails to understand is the simple truth that Islam itself is the problem. 'Muslim leaders', who are the mullahs, have zero interest in speaking out against misogyny. It would be like Larry Flint preaching against porn, or SnoopDogg preaching against pot, or the Pope denouncing the Nicene Creed. Not even Saul of Tarsus, in his new role as Apostle Paul, rejected Judaism in his embrace of Christ.
What bothers OS is that our President, while yammering away about 'binders' and 'women's rights' ad nauseum, will stand up and tell the UN that he's down with Mohammed all the way, that he won't let anybody talk trash about The Prophet, US First Amendment be damned.
Miz Hillary, you got anything to say about this? You down with this, too? Does being Secretary of State trump everything?
We need people at every level of public life who will say the simple thing: These people are monsters, and we don't truck with them. At every opportunity given, we will oppose them with every means at our disposal.
Obama will not do that. There is some basic conflict of interest inside his personality that will not allow him to state the obvious. This is not to say he is secretly Muslim--who knows, who can say? It it to say he is not the man for the job going forward.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl has been beheaded, by her in-laws, for refusing to become a prostitute. Her mother-in-law and and a hired man cut off Mah Gul's head in the province of Herat last week.
The horrific case has confirmed the plight of women and girls in Taliban-strongholds such as Herat: it comes in the wake of the Taliban's attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for girls' education in Pakistan.
Ms. Odone then goes on to ask:
Surely, enough is enough? How many women martyrs do Muslim leaders need before they speak out against such misogyny?
What she fails to understand is the simple truth that Islam itself is the problem. 'Muslim leaders', who are the mullahs, have zero interest in speaking out against misogyny. It would be like Larry Flint preaching against porn, or SnoopDogg preaching against pot, or the Pope denouncing the Nicene Creed. Not even Saul of Tarsus, in his new role as Apostle Paul, rejected Judaism in his embrace of Christ.
What bothers OS is that our President, while yammering away about 'binders' and 'women's rights' ad nauseum, will stand up and tell the UN that he's down with Mohammed all the way, that he won't let anybody talk trash about The Prophet, US First Amendment be damned.
Miz Hillary, you got anything to say about this? You down with this, too? Does being Secretary of State trump everything?
We need people at every level of public life who will say the simple thing: These people are monsters, and we don't truck with them. At every opportunity given, we will oppose them with every means at our disposal.
Obama will not do that. There is some basic conflict of interest inside his personality that will not allow him to state the obvious. This is not to say he is secretly Muslim--who knows, who can say? It it to say he is not the man for the job going forward.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Arlen Specter, The Man Who Led The Charge To Smear Robert Bork, Lawyer For Ira Einhorn, Turncoat, Poster Boy For Everything Wrong With Washington, Meets His Maker
Gone, soon forgotten, mainly unmourned.
He really was completely dumfounded in 2009 when greeted with thousands of angry constituents who had begged him not to vote for Obama's stimulus press and health care bill.
He really assumed no one was paying attention, was shocked to find that he was mistaken, and was shuffled off to a friendless oblivion by primary voters in 2010.
Three cheers for the primary system, and the secret ballot.
He really was completely dumfounded in 2009 when greeted with thousands of angry constituents who had begged him not to vote for Obama's stimulus press and health care bill.
He really assumed no one was paying attention, was shocked to find that he was mistaken, and was shuffled off to a friendless oblivion by primary voters in 2010.
Three cheers for the primary system, and the secret ballot.
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