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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (57)	11/9/2012 3:20:22 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Time for Bill Ayers to become CIA head. You ain't seen nothing yet. Petraeus was used as trash by Soros and Valerie Jarrett. The US 'government' is used as trash by Soros and Valerie Jarrett.

To: FJB who wrote (57)	11/9/2012 3:28:08 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

Look at Obama's face in these photos. He is on heavy drugs and his nervous system is on its last legs. He will never make it through the next 4 years.

To: FJB who wrote (57)	11/9/2012 5:44:16 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

Lockheed Martin Exec Who Followed Admin Lead on WARN Act Resigns Due to Affair (Coincidence?)[ PJ Tatler ^ \| November 9, 2012 \| Bidget Johnson The CEO-in-waiting of the defense contractor who declined to issue WARN Act layoff notices on the urging of the Obama administration — sequestration-related notices mandated by law that would have gone out just before the election — has resigned, citing an affair. Christopher E. Kubasik, 51, today resigned from his role as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer (COO), effective immediately, Lockheed Martin announced. Kubasik was set to become CEO in January. He “resigned after an ethics investigation confirmed that he had a close personal relationship with a subordinate employee. His actions violated the company’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, but did not affect the company’s operational or financial performance,” the defense giant said in a statement. On Oct. 1, Kubasik and Bob Stevens, current chairman and CEO, sent a controversial memo to employees bowing to the administration’s advice to not warn employees of impending sequestration layoffs. With the 60 days’ notice mandated by the WARN Act, the notices would have gone out at the beginning of November. “We have been working closely with the government to understand our obligations under the WARN Act and to ensure our employees are provided fair treatment and appropriate notice, if their jobs are impacted by sequestration,” Kubasik and Stevens wrote. “After careful review of the additional guidance provided by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense, we will not issue sequestration-related WARN notices this year. …If sequestration were to happen, we are compelled to comply with the law and will do so as respectfully and as ably as we can.” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) lashed out at Lockheed for “bowing” to the administration. “It appears companies will bow to the threat implicit in last week’s OMB guidance; withhold notices today or the government might not cover your court costs down the road,” McKeon said on the day the memo went out. “Let me be clear, neither the OMB guidance nor the Lockheed decision will protect a single defense industry job if sequestration occurs in January.” Other defense contractors had mixed reactions to the guidance, which the OMB said was provided to “minimize the potential for waste and disruption associated with the issuance of unwarranted layoff notices.” “General Dynamics has not determined whether we will issue WARN notices to employees as a result of sequestration, because the Defense Department has not informed us of how our programs will be impacted,” Rob Doolittle, staff vice president for communications, told PJM after the Lockheed announcement. Lockheed Martin immediately elected Marillyn A. Hewson, 58, president of the Electronic Systems business area, to fill Kubasik’s current spot as president and COO and to become CEO in January. The sequestration, which goes into effect Jan. 2 without “fiscal cliff” action in the lame-duck session, puts more than 2 million jobs at risk. Virginia, Florida, and Pennsylvania — all swing states either won by Obama or in which he leads — would take the hardest hit with more than 365,000 job losses combined, according to a George Mason University & Chmura Economics and Analytics report.

To: FJB who wrote (57)	11/9/2012 8:53:36 PM
From: Farmboy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

Yep, done deal. How convenient, eh? Lots of money says Petraeus is falling on his own sword to protect the administration, possibly with some encouragement from Obama. Benghazi wil be nothing more than a distant memory.

To: FJB who wrote (57)	10/5/2013 11:11:10 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 16547

‘Not how we do it in New York’: Ex-NYPD cop questions sister's killing by Capitol police ......................................................................................... RT News ^ \| Oct 5, 2013 Police cordon off the US Capitol after shots fired were reported near 2nd Street NW and Constitution Avenue on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 3, 2013. (AFP Photo / Jewel Samad) Police in Washington DC did not have to resort to shooting dead an unarmed woman, who lead officers on a short-lived car chase through the Capitol on Thursday, said the driver's sister, former New York police sergeant Valarie Carey. "My sister could have been any person traveling in our capital," Valarie Carey told reporters outside her Brooklyn home on Saturday. "Deadly physical force was not the ultimate recourse and it didn't have to be." Miriam Carey, a 34-year old dental hygienist from Connecticut, tried to drive her black Infiniti coupe through a barrier near the White House, hitting a Secret Service agent who attempted to wave her away. She then sped toward Capitol Hill, leading police on a high-speed pursuit that came to an end when her car got stuck on the median and police shot her. A Capitol Police officer was also hurt when his car hit a barricade during the mile and a half mid-afternoon chase, which lasted just a few minutes. Law enforcement sources said Carey did not discharge a firearm and there was no indication that she was in possession of a weapon. "I'm more than certain that there was no need for a gun to be used [by police] when there was no gunfire coming from the vehicle," Valarie Carey said. "I don't know how their protocols are in DC, but I do know how they are in New York City." Valarie (L) and Amy Carey, sisters of Miriam Carey, the woman involved in the Capitol Hill shooting, attend a news conference outside their home in the Brooklyn borough of New York, October 4, 2013. (Reuters / Carlo Allegri) Representatives from the Capitol Police and the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department could not be reached for comment early on Saturday. Kerry, whose one-year-old daughter Erica was with her in the car during the chase on Thursday, had reportedly been hospitalized for postpartum depression months after giving birth. At the news conference in Brooklyn, Carey's other sister, Amy Carey-Jones, told reporters of her sister’s emotional struggles. "I can tell you that she was a law-abiding citizen, carefree and loving. She had a baby and she did suffer from post-partum depression with psychosis," Carey-Jones said, adding that her sister had received treatment, including medication and therapy. The visibly shaken sisters held hands during the news conference. Earlier in the day they had traveled to the Capitol to identify their sister to authorities with the aid of photographs, Carey-Jones said.