Thursday, October 25, 2012
The real reason behind Benghazigate: Obama engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale?
It's coming hot and heavy.
Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting — notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Clare Lopez at RadicalIslam.org — and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as Benghazigate.
The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat J. Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the “opposition” in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
Once Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown, Stevens was appointed ambassador to the new Libya run by Mr. Belhadj and his friends. Not surprisingly, one of the most important priorities for someone in that position would be to try to find and secure the immense amount of armaments that had been cached by the dictator around the country and systematically looted during and after the revolution.
One of the places in Libya most awash with such weapons in the most dangerous of hands is Benghazi. It now appears that Stevens was there — on a particularly risky day, with no security to speak of and despite now copiously documented concerns about his own safety and that of his subordinates — for another priority mission: sending arms recovered from the former regime’s stocks to the “opposition” in Syria. As in Libya, the insurgents are known to include al Qaeda and other Shariah-supremacist groups, including none other than Abdelhakim Belhadj.
Fox News has chronicled how the Al Entisar, a Libyan-flagged vessel carrying 400 tons of cargo, docked on Sept. 6 in the Turkish port of Iskenderun. It reportedly supplied both humanitarian assistance and arms — including deadly SA-7 man-portable surface-to-air missiles — apparently destined for Islamists, again including al Qaeda elements, in Syria.
What cries out for further investigation — and debate in the remaining days of this presidential election — is whether this shipment was part of a larger covert Obama effort to transfer weapons to our enemies that could make the Iran-Contra scandal, to say nothing of Operation Fast and Furious, pale by comparison.
More @ The Washington Times
Jeep, an Obama favorite, looks to shift production to China
Via The Feral Irishman
Jeep Wrangler behind the president as seen in his new second term agenda binder.
In another potential blow for the president's
Ohio reelection campaign, Jeep, the rugged brand President Obama once
said symbolized American freedom, is considering giving up on the United
States and shifting production to China.
Such a move would crash the economy in towns like Toledo, Ohio, where Jeeps are made and supplied, and rob the community of the economic security they thought Obama's auto bailout assured them.
Obama is such a fan of Jeep that he included a picture of himself speaking at the Toledo plant in his newly released second term agenda binder. In his address to the plant in 2011, Obama said, "I just took a short tour of the plant and watched some of you putting the finishing touches on the Wrangler. Now, as somebody reminded, I need to call it the 'iconic' Wrangler. And that's appropriate because when you think about what Wrangler has always symbolized. It symbolized freedom, adventure, hitting the open road, never looking back."
Well it appears that the taxpayer bailed-out Chrysler is looking back and now considering cutting costs by shifting production of all Jeeps to China, which has a strong desire for Jeeps.
In a Bloomberg interview, Jeep's president said the automaker plans to restore Jeep production in China, suspended in 2009, and is considering making all Jeeps in China. "Fiat SpA, majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers' operations in the region," reported the business wire service.
Such a move would crash the economy in towns like Toledo, Ohio, where Jeeps are made and supplied, and rob the community of the economic security they thought Obama's auto bailout assured them.
Obama is such a fan of Jeep that he included a picture of himself speaking at the Toledo plant in his newly released second term agenda binder. In his address to the plant in 2011, Obama said, "I just took a short tour of the plant and watched some of you putting the finishing touches on the Wrangler. Now, as somebody reminded, I need to call it the 'iconic' Wrangler. And that's appropriate because when you think about what Wrangler has always symbolized. It symbolized freedom, adventure, hitting the open road, never looking back."
Well it appears that the taxpayer bailed-out Chrysler is looking back and now considering cutting costs by shifting production of all Jeeps to China, which has a strong desire for Jeeps.
In a Bloomberg interview, Jeep's president said the automaker plans to restore Jeep production in China, suspended in 2009, and is considering making all Jeeps in China. "Fiat SpA, majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers' operations in the region," reported the business wire service.
More @ The Examiner
Wirz Memorial Set for Sunday November 4
Captain Henry Wirz
Our young people are taught about the so-called infamous Andersonville Prison where Captain Henry Wirz served as Commandant but what about the infamous Union prison camps in Chicago and Elmira in New York?
The Alexander H. Stephens Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans
invite you to attend a 37th Annual Captain Henry Wirz Memorial Service
to be held in the town of Andersonville, Georgia on Sunday afternoon,
November 4, 2012 at 3 PM. In
case of inclement weather, the service will be held in the old restored
Andersonville Baptist Church -- now called the "Village Hall."
Starting
at 2:00 p.m. the musical group from Leesburg, GA, "A Joyful Noise,"
will provide music for an hour. They have played and sung before a
number of groups for several years, and they will be playing Southern
songs and Gospel Hymns. They will be singing "Amazing Grace" and "Dixie"
during the 3:00 p.m. Memorial Service.
The guest speaker is Ms. Cassy Gray from Fairfield, Ohio. Greetings will include that which will be read from Col. Heinrich Wirz of Bern, Switzerland, the great grandnephew of Capt. Henry Wirz.
Mayor Marvin Baugh will read a proclamation declaring Nov. 4 as Capt. Henry Wirz Day in Andersonville.
Who was Captain Henry Wirz?
In
April 1864, Wirz, born in Switzerland in 1822, was appointed
Commandant of Andersonville Prison. It has been written that the Union
prisoners numbered 32,000 at Andersonville in August 1864. During this
time food and medical supplies were scarce for both Union prisoners and
their Confederate guards. The blockade of Southern ports was also very
effective and Union President Abraham Lincoln halted the exchange of
prisoners.
On August 18, 1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant said:
"It
is hard on our men in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it is
humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. At this
particular time to release all Rebel prisoners north, would insure
Sherman’s defeat and compromise our safety."
In
August 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered that the charges against
Confederate generals and public servants should be dropped but not for
Captain Henry Wirz. The Wirz trail was a mockery with witnesses allowed
to testify for the prosecution but few for the defense. Captain Wirz was
hung in Washington, D.C. on November 10,
1865. It is written that Wirz was offered a deal to save his life,
which was to testify against the former Confederate President Jefferson
Davis. Wirz, being a man of honor, refused.
Captain Henry Wirz, in the last letter to his wife —dated November 10th
-- said in the concluding sentence: "Lord, thou callest me, here I
am…And, now, farewell, wife children, all; farewell, farewell; God be
with us."
In
1977, at the National Convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,
this Historical-Fraternal group declared Captain Henry Wirz a
Confederate Martyr and Hero. A posthumous Medal of Honor was also
presented in honor and memory of Captain Wirz and is on display at the
Andersonville Welcome Center.
McCaskill’s Husband Awarded $20 Million in Stimulus For Real Estate Projects
It looks as though the word is getting out over Claire McCaskill and her husband and just how she is helping his businesses out in the Senate. Real estate projects associated with Joseph Shepard received more than $20 million in stimulus money at taxpayer’s expense.
The National Legal and Policy Center reported:
An analysis of public records by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has found more than $20 million in federal stimulus funds benefitting real estate projects financially tied to Joseph Shepard, husband of Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill.
Earlier this month, the Associated Press published an analysis, stating, “businesses affiliated with the husband of Senator Claire McCaskill have received almost $40 million in federal subsidies for low-income housing developments during her first five years in office…”
The NLPC analysis released today showed more than $20 million in financial benefits from the federal stimulus law to real estate projects associated with McCaskill’s husband, with all of the $20 million benefitting projects different than those identified by the Associated Press story.
While the AP study focused on federal subsidies going to entities listed on Financial Disclosure Reports filed by Senator McCaskill, NLPC reviewed voluminous public records involving the Missouri Tax Credit Fund, L.P. (MTCF), a business listed as an asset by Senator McCaskill on her reports.
None of the six real estate projects identified by NLPC as receiving over $20 million in federal stimulus funds were listed on McCaskill’s Financial Disclosure Reports or covered by the AP analysis.
According to McCaskill’s Financial Disclosure Reports, MTCF was listed as having an asset value of over $1 million in 2009, 2010, and 2011. Asset values are reported in broad ranges with “Over $1,000,000″ being the highest category. Therefore, it is possible that the asset value of MTCF is much larger than $1,000,000.According to Reboot Congress the Claire and her husband make millions while we, the taxpayers, subsidize their extravagant lifestyle.
More @ Freedom Outpost
SALE! MAINSTAY 3,600 Calorie Food Bar $5.69
Well, I had this ready to post and saw this: it meets the dictates for Halal. So, screw you, I'll look elsewhere.
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]Trapping Feral Pigs and Other Parables of Modern Life
From Matt Bracken:
They feed them, most generously. They kill them with kindness.
First, in a clearing in the woods, the trappers build an enclosure about twenty feet on a side and four feet high, made of stout wire mesh. There is an opening on each of the four sides of the pen. The pen is loaded with corn and other pig favorites. At first, the suspicious hog honchos will send in a few of the little ones as scouts. The scouts come and go at will, eating to their piggy
satisfaction, until eventually suspicions die and they are joined by every other member of the herd right up the chain of command. The pigs soon come to believe that if nothing bad has happened to them after entering the strange wire enclosure full of corn, then nothing bad will ever happen. Their “normalcy bias” kicks in very quickly.
Soon, the pigs can’t imagine any other life. Rooting for tubers? An unpleasant task of the forgotten past. Nightly the herd eagerly trots to the free corn in the pen, and they fail to notice when one of the openings has been closed off with another panel of wire fencing during the day. Pigs are said to be as smart as dogs, but neither can count to four. Nor are the closings of the second or third openings much noticed. Finally, all that remains for the trapper to do is to install a powerful spring-driven trap door above the last opening. The entire tribe of formerly wary feral hogs once again enters the pen, and with a metallic clang their miraculous corn nirvana turns into a death trap.
The moral of the story: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Don’t go inside the “free corn” pen, not even when all the doors are open. Free food is as dangerous as the sirens’ song to ancient mariners. It is all too easy to get used to being fed, and then to miss the exits closing one at a time.
2. The Turkeys and Farmer Brown
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