Monday, October 15, 2012
Unreal… Obama Administration Didn’t Reach Benghazi For 17 Days Because They Were WAITING ON Visa’s (Video)
Can't make this crap up.
THIS IS INSANE…
The Obama State Department testified this week that the rational that they were not on the ground for 17 days in Benghazi was because they could not get Visa’s.
Former CIA officer Gary Bernsten was on with Judge Jeanine Saturday:
“It’s about leadership. In this particular case I saw the Department of State and I heard testimony that said that the rational that we were not on the ground in Benghazi after 17 days is because they couldn’t get Visa’s. Which is insanity. They should have gotten people on planes, both the agency and the FBI, and similarly they should have had military people there, moving there to aid an embassy that was under attack that was sovereign US territory in an area that weakly controlled by the government. And even if it’s a diplomatic problem, you move to save your people first.”It’s true… Press TV reported on this back on October 6th.
More @ Gateway Pundit
Ohio coal miners rally against Obama’s ‘absolute lies’
“I have a couple of letters that I would like to address today, regarding Mr. Obama’s stand on coal, as well as the current media and how they have represented us the coal miners, here at Century Mine and the coal industry in general,” said Mitch Miracle, a coal miner at the Beallsville, Ohio Century Mine, operated by Murray Energy, a Pepper Pike, Ohio-based, privately-owned coal mining company.
“Standing behind me are proud Americans, proud coal miners proud citizens of this great country, proud members of the Ohio Valley, where we live in and I am damn proud of them,” he said.
“Proud Ohio Valley workers, as you all know the economy has been tough for all of us, this is a great profession, these are great workers and we are proud to be a part of it, part of Murray Energy and we support our owner 100 percent,” he said. “We ask that the media, lets embrace coal, embrace what it does for all of us.”
The first letter asked the president to stop running ads that claim miners were forced to attend the Romney rally and the second letter was addressed to David Bloomquist, a radio talk show host for Wheeling, W.V.’s WWVA, he said. Bloomquist claimed to various media outlets that miners told him they were pressured to attend the Aug. 14 Romney rally.
Reading from the letter to the president, Miracle said: “You have approved and are running television and campaign ads about the Mitt Romney event that was held at our Century coal mine. These ads state that we were forced to attend this rally and that is blatantly false. There are numerous false statements and absolute lies concerning our participation in this event, we the employees.”
Here is the Obama TV commercial:
More @ Human Events
Obama's refusal to deport illegal aliens unconstitutional, say law professors
In the paper entitled, “The Obama Administration, the Dream Act and the Take Care Clause,” authors Robert Delahunty of the University of St. Thomas [Minnesota] and John Yoo, a law professor at University of California at Berkeley and former U.S. deputy assistant attorney general, blast Obama's moratorium on deporting certain illegal immigrants. The professors dismissed the idea that the decision on whether to deport illegal immigrants who are arrested for minor infractions is a matter of prosecutorial discretion.
“It’s the duties of the president. He must always uphold the law.”
-John Yoo, Berkeley law professor and former State Department attorney
More @ Fox
The Cheapest Garands
Somehow, in preparation for the first article in this series on ordering M1 Garand rifles from the Civilian Marksmanship Program, we missed the least expensive of the bunch. They are called “Field Grade” Garands, and at $525 (plus $24.95 S&H), they seem to be a great buy. We ordered both the Springfield Armory and Harrington & Richardson (HRA) versions of these guns, and the Winchester is no longer available. Of all the Garands we have ordered from CMP so far, if you are looking for a Garand to just shoot and enjoy, you can’t do any better for the money than these field grade guns.
Look around in gunshops and online and you will be hard pressed to find a nice looking and shooting Garand for under $600. Even at live auctions these days more Garands go for upwards of a thousand bucks. These “cheapest Garands” are a real find, and you order them directly from the CMP, just as we described in the first installment of this series. Our guns came in less than three weeks, each with its own hard plastic CMP case, and certification paperwork. Who knows when these guns will dry up, so if you are thinking long, heavy boxes under your Christmas tree this year, now would be the time to order.
The condition listed on the Field Grade guns on the CMP sales page shows them as “Fair to Good,” and there is an extensive warning that these rifles may contain mixed manufacturer parts, or even import parts, and that you should not expect rifles in “mint” condition in this grade. This could be the reason we didn’t order them for the first article. It is worded pretty harsh. But as you can see from the pictures, these guns are actually nicer than the the $625-$950 “Service Grade” rifles we got in the first order.
More @ Guns America
Rethinking the American Union
The contributors to Donald Livingston's valuable collection of essays
defend two main contentions. Each of these contentions may be held
independently of the other, but the first one provides a reason to
welcome the truth of the second.
Livingston, with characteristic care, states the first of these contentions in this way:
Livingston adds to this argument an appeal to tradition:
Livingston, with characteristic care, states the first of these contentions in this way:
As Aristotle taught, everything in nature has a proper size, beyond or below which it becomes dysfunctional.… The same holds for the functioning of other social entities [than a jury] such as committees, lawmaking assemblies, and bureaucracies and the ratio of population to representative (e.g., one representative for every million persons is not representation at all). None of these can function well if they are too large or out of scale. (pp. 16–17)Livingston concludes that a republic must be of limited size. His argument, if I have grasped it, is this: A republic must have a representative legislative assembly. In order to count properly as representative, the number of persons that each member of the assembly represents must not be too large. But it is also the case that the number of people in the assembly itself cannot be overly large, for the reason stated in the preceding paragraph. In a large republic, these requirements cannot at the same time be met. Thus, the proper size of a republic is necessarily limited.
Livingston adds to this argument an appeal to tradition:
More @ Mises
Expecting Somebody Else to Save Your Country? A Survey of the Situation
Mike Scruggs
The latest Rasmussen tracking poll has Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama by 49 to 47 percent. That is close enough to mean that the race will come down to which side can get its voters to the polls. The Rasmussen and Pew polls show Romney supporters to be only slightly more energized than Obama supporters. The most recent Pew Poll taken just after the debate showed that Romney has strong support by 67 percent of his supporters, not quite matching Obama’s strong support by 68 percent of his supporters. However, another similar question indicated that Romney’s supporters were more interested in the race by 82 percent compared to 67 percent for Obama. Rasmussen’s latest poll indicated that 43 percent of Romney’s supporters are certain they will vote for him, while slightly less, 41 percent are certain to vote for Obama. The Rasmussen poll indicated that 78 percent of likely voters had a high interest in the election. This was higher among conservatives and Republicans at 83 percent. Thus the energy level is close. It appears that Romney supporters feel they have more interest in both the economic and social issues, while Obama supporters are more oriented toward group identity. Ninety percent of blacks indicated a high interest in the election.
The differences in interest can be illustrated by some of Rasmussen’s statistics. Conservatives favor Romney over Obama 84 to 14. Liberals favor Obama over Romney 89 to 7. Blacks favor Obama 93 to 5 over Romney. From 57 to 58 percent Republicans and conservatives respectively follow the presidential election daily, but 74 percent of blacks follow it daily. The most highly motivated segment of the voting population is black.
I was hoping that Obama’s position on gay marriage, which is unpopular among black churchgoers, would reduce his black group identity vote by a significant margin or weaken the energy of their support for him. A slight majority of blacks oppose gay marriage, but Obama’s recently admitted gay marriage approval has not caused a corresponding impact. Among Americans who attend church services at least weekly, Romney leads Obama 59 to 35. However, in the past 12 months Obama’s support among black Protestants has dropped from 97 to 87 percent, indicating that the vast majority of blacks still place racial identity above everything else. Blacks tend to oppose illegal immigration and amnesty, but they have not been well served by Obama on immigration issues.
The recent drop of the unemployment rate from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent resulted from 873,000 new people reporting having jobs on the September BLS Household Survey. This may have improved Obama’s political position a bit even though it largely a fortuitous appearance of already employed illegal immigrant workers on the BLS September Household Survey, who now feel comfortable and encouraged to fill out the survey. These unlawful amnesties are the result of Obama’s recent usurpation of Congressional and Constitutional authority on immigration amnesties. Initially expected to be about one million, the Pew Research Center believes it may run 1o 1.7 million. Do not be surprised if more such amnesties result in another phony improvement of the employment situation. This is essentially a fortuitous difference showing up in the Household Survey—the equivalent of a mere accounting transfer. No new jobs have been created, and the newly amnestied workers, now with legal status, have become a more formidable threat to black employment. The September survey indicated black unemployment was 13.4 percent versus 7.0 for whites. Obama is not only failing to help black workers; his amnesties are directly hurting them. The unemployment rate for black teenagers aged 16 to 19 is a whopping 36.7 percent. Yet they are undeterred and highly energized in their support for him.
Pew Research and several other polls show Obama having over 70 percent of the Hispanic vote, and this does not appear to be much in play. Except for Cubans, who vote majority Republican, Hispanics favor Obama because of Obamacare and other social welfare programs. An NBC News poll indicated that 81 percent of whites but only 26 percent of Latinos want to repeal Obamacare.
Rasmussen believes that Romney must win at least three of four swing states to win the electoral votes to make him president. North Carolina is back on that list, with Romney currently leading Obama 51 to 48. Obama’s quiet but extensive grass roots campaign in North Carolina’s high-minority urban areas, however has reduced his deficit from 5 to 3 percentage points. Romney is now ahead in Florida 51 to 47 and in Virginia 49 to 47. Obama leads Romney 48 to 47 in Ohio, where Romney supposedly has only 52 percent of the white vote. However, internal details of the Ohio poll seem questionable.
Getting out the vote will win the election one way or another. Television and radio ads and debates will have an impact, and I am hoping that the more people know about Obama’s economic failures, disastrous foreign policy decisions, debilitating military strength policies, and shocking opposition to Judeo-Christian worldviews and moral culture, the more his poll numbers will cave. That is my hope; the reality is that nothing seems to dent the Obama-mania of his major support constituencies. Moreover, the Democrats are extremely formidable in their ability to get out their vote. They have Big Labor and the numerous front organizations of the former Acorn organization.
Republicans and conservatives often have strong feelings about the election, but actually getting them to do the grunt work of phone banks, neighborhood canvases, serving as poll watchers, and polling place greeters, and talking to their friends about the importance of the election will be necessary to win this election.
We cannot depend upon somebody else to save our country. It has to be us.
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