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

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (3634)	6/15/2013 11:35:32 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Interesting Date on Letter about Huma Abedin sent by U.S. Senator to John Kerry .......................................................................................................................... Again, back to Grassley’s potentially brilliant move here. While he makes no reference to Huma’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and focuses on questions surrounding her work as a “special government employee”, the answers to many of the questions he wants Kerry to answer could do all the talking. Consider what the correct answers to these questions – asked by Grassley – just might be: What was (were) Ms. Abedin’s official title(s) at the Department of State from June 2012 until February 2013? When did Ms. Abedin change her status to “special government employee”? What effect, if any, did the change have on her security clearance and her access to classified information? Did Ms. Abedin continue to represent herself as the U.S. State Department Deputy Chief of Staff following her change to SGE? Was Ms. Abedin recused of any issues at the U.S. Department of State when she became a special government employee? If so, please list all recused issues (our note: think Benghazi). We also noted at the time that Abedin’s quiet resignation from her job as Hillary’s Deputy in June of last year occurred in the same month that Bachmann’s letter was sent to the Deputy Inspector General of the State Department. According to Grassley’s letter, Abedin was on maternity leave from December of 2011 until she returned to her position at State in June of 2012, only to secretly leave that position in the same month. The New York Times piece also revealed something else potentially telling: An associate of Ms. Abedin’s said… that the arrangement allowed her (Huma Abedin) to work from her home in New York, rather than at the State Department’s headquarters in Washington, and to spend more time with her child and husband. When the heat is on someone, what do they typically do? They Leave town while not wanting you to realize they’re gone, which is exactly what Huma did. The lack of transparency by the State Department at the time raises at least one very important question: When and why did Abedin step down as Hillary’s Deputy at around the same time she was named by Bachmann and why wasn’t her resignation made public until last month? Here is the excerpt from Bachmann’s letter that referenced Abedin and caused the most controversy: “…the Department’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members – her late father, her mother and her brother – connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations. Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy-making.” Again, according to the New York Times, Abedin quietly resigned as Hillary’s Deputy Chief of Staff in the same month that Bachmann wrote that letter. Yet, Abedin’s defenders operated under a premise that said she never did. Back on May 17th, we wrote the following: Had an announcement been made in June of 2012 that Abedin was stepping down as Deputy, it clearly would have fueled the controversy. Nonetheless, two questions need to be answered: 1.) Why did Abedin step down as Deputy Chief of Staff when she allegedly did? 2.) Why was it kept secret for nearly a year? The New York Times story came out nearly one month ago. Is it coincidence that the date of Grassley’s letter matches the date of Bachmann’s letter one year later? Perhaps, but it’s at least possible that Grassley is sending a message that while he’s publicly pursuing answers to questions that are less controversial than questions about Abedin’s irrefutable ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, he may be privately letting those involved know that he is well aware of the very warranted concerns of Bachmann, et. al. Perhaps Grassley (like us) has a big problem with the prospect of a woman tied to a group that birthed the group that hit us on 9/11/01 becoming first lady of the city that was hit the hardest. If you thought the Grond Zero mosque was insensitive, that would be Off. The. Charts.

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (3634)	6/15/2013 12:59:11 PM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bonefish Honey_Bee THE WATSONYOUTH Respond to of 16547

Can’t afford a pricey trip to Africa? Consider these #Obama Vacation Ideas ................................................................................................................................... Take the family out for a Slurpee…. and I do mean one Slurpee. Sit in the outdoor furniture arrangement at WalMart Just go to sleep and dream about what's happening in far away exotic lands. Like Benghazi. Take the family on a trip around the block Hang out at Canadian border in S Dakota Go to a store with kid-friendly carts, say it's amusement park. Get that jar of pennies rolled. Surprise the family with a Taco Bell Big Box. Go to your local waste water treatment plant for a free tour Put up a photo of the beach in your living room Drive through an even poorer neighborhood than the one you live in

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (3634)	6/16/2013 7:53:39 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

AT&T to Load iPhones With Emergency Alerts From Obama – That You Can't Switch Off...

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (3634)	6/18/2013 10:19:37 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Honey_Bee Respond to of 16547

It looks like Bill Maher has passed on Sarah Palin’s offer to meet up in person and have a little face-to-face chat about the comments he made on stage about Palin’s son, Trig.

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (3634)	6/18/2013 10:22:17 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Woody_Nickels Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

Barbara Walters Defends Maher Calling Trig Palin Retarded: 'Don't Think He Intended to be Mean-Spirited’ By Noel Sheppard \| June 17, 2013 m.newsbusters.org As NewsBusters reported last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called out vulgarian comedian Bill Maher for referring to her Down Syndrome son Trig as "retarded." On ABC's The View Monday, co-host Barbara Walters astonishingly defended Maher saying, "I don't think he intended it to be mean-spirited" (video follows with transcript and commentary): WHOOPI GOLDBERG: At a recent standup show in Las Vegas, comedian Bill Maher apparently called Sarah Palin’s five-year-old developmentally-challenged son Trig retarded. And Sarah blasted him on Twitter as a bully. Is that, is it, is he a bully? Is he a bad, what is he? BARBARA WALTERS: Can I address that? GOLDBERG: Absolutely. WALTERS: Okay. [Takes deep breath.] I had an older sister named Jackie. I named my baby after her. You can see her, there am I with all the feathers, there’s my father. There's my sister. She passed away. All our life my sister was called retarded. That was the term. It was a derogatory term. But that was the term. Then it was changed to mentally-challenged. I'm happy about that. I think it was very hard for my sister and very hard for me even to this day to say, as I often had to, I have a retarded sister. My sister is retarded, and mentally challenged. There are physically challenged, whatever. I'm very grateful that it has changed. But there are people who don't know that, and they use the word retarded. ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Do you think Bill Maher is one of those? WALTERS: I don’t know, I don’t. I think that, you know, unless you're a little more familiar, you don't even know the term mentally challenged. HASSELBECK: So you don't think Bill Maher meant harm in calling Trig retarded? SHERRI SHEPHERD: I also want to know what was he joking about that he had to even bring Trig up. WALTERS: I don’t know. There are comedians, we have other things here. We have comedians who say, “Oh well, you know, I’m being funny." Do I think it was unfortunate that he did it? Yes, I do. Do I, do I think he realized what it was? No, I don't. I mean, I don't think he intended it to be mean-spirited. He likes to take on Sarah Palin, a lot of people do. She can fight back. And she did. And I'm glad she did. GOLDBERG: You know, I think that we, society took the word "retarded" and made it into something derogatory. I think we made it a bad word by utilizing, well because we turned it into, you know, something that you call somebody to make them feel bad, to feel different. And I think we, you know, and as we have changed it into developmentally-challenged, you know, we, society has that… HASSELBECK: We’re in 2013, right? WALTERS: Retarded means, retard means slow. What it meant was the person was slow. HASSELBECK: I think there’s not a person on this earth right now who has a sense of mercy and love and understanding who wouldn't go to a group of people or in front of an audience, perhaps, and not know that that would maybe make someone feel bad. So I think it's odd that we would give any person, namely the person we mentioned before, the benefit of the doubt. I feel that that's really generous. WALTERS: I wish that everybody were as enlightened as you. Believe me they are not. GOLDBERG: I wasn't giving anybody the benefit of the doubt. I was saying to Barbara, because she said it was derogatory, and she didn't realize it. But that she realized it early on. And I'm saying when I was a kid, it wasn't derogatory. We turned it into something that is so sort of crappy, that you know, we have to keep an eye on this because t's our responsibility to watch out for that you know. WALTERS: When I was a kid, and this is what I'm talking about, when my sister was a kid for many, many years, it was a derogatory and painful remark. Okay? As NewsBusters has been reporting the contortions liberal media members that eviscerated George W. Bush for warrantless wiretaps have been exhibiting in support of Barack Obama's far more intrusive domestive surveillance, here too was such hypocrisy on display. This seems particularly absurd of Walters to defend Maher given her sister's impairment. Surely Walters knows that Maher has been attacking the Palin family for years. He's called Sarah the C-word, a " dumb twat," and said she would "f--k" Rick Perry if he was black. Maher's also gone after Palin's daughter Bristol on several occasions. So why would anyone in their right mind - especially someone that had a mentally-challenged sister - believe Maher didn't intend to be mean-spirited? Honestly, this was not one of Walters' finer moments. She could have made a nice statement - especially someone with her family background - by coming down on this innocent child being the butt of anyone's jokes. But no. She had to defend this disgusting man who's gotten rich viciously attacking folks whose political views he disagrees with. And what about all that talk about the kids of politicians being off limits? Sadly, what we've learned is that such children are only protected if their parents are Democrats. Republicans' kids? Be my guest. I'm sure it's just a joke that wasn't intended to be mean-spirited.