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

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/15/2014 10:40:28 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

He will use US taxpayers' money ( to undermine the US )

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/15/2014 10:48:38 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

The only reason liberalism survives is because there's usually a good bit of lag between when a policy is being implemented and the time when the American people get to see the results. If Americans could somehow magically see what would happen in a decade or two after a liberal policy has passed, there would be no liberals left. Instead, back in the real world, liberals create or exacerbate disasters with their policies, blame everyone other than themselves, and then demand more government action to fix the problem they screwed up in the first place.

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/15/2014 10:58:46 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/15/2014 11:00:55 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

BUSTED: Media Fails to Mention Vegas Shooters Involvement in “Occupy Movement” June 14, 2014 by Dean Garrison dcclothesline.com Sometimes I wonder how we can elect any conservatives at all in this country. According to past studies, 89% of journalists in America tend to vote democrat. Whether they consider themselves liberals, progressives, moderates, conservatives, independents or anything else under the sun, it does not matter. Look at what people do and not what they say. We have too often seen what happens to good reporters when they challenge the liberal media establishment. Remember the recent case of Sharyl Attkisson? The latest evidence of a liberal media agenda comes from the Las Vegas shooters, Amanda and Jerad Miller. The picture collage at the top of this post paints a much different narrative than we have been fed. We have been bombarded with the Millers’ connection to the Bundy Ranch, Alex Jones and the liberty movement in general. The liberty movement is massive and it does not emcompass only the right-wing. But we were led to believe that the Millers were Tea Party-loving right-wing extremists. That is what the media wants America to believe. They especially want the police to believe this. They want cops around the country to believe that right-wing extremists are the enemies, and in this case “cop killers.” Why? Because if and when that fateful day of revolution descends upon this nation, the left wants the police in their corner. It is just another strategy to fortify the budding police state in America. It is a type of psychological warfare, you might say. Make law enforcement officials hate right-wingers and they will remain loyal to a destructive leftist agenda. Maybe most importantly they want the common people of the left and right to continue to hate each other. I say common people because there are two lefts and two rights. There are the destructive leaders and there are the unknowing people and it is like that on both sides of the aisle. We are all “useful idiots” in one way or another. They want no common ground to be had. The truth is, that despite the media spin, many people in this country can relate to both Occupy Protesters and Bundy Ranch Supporters. But the powers that be do not want you to wake up and realize that. They want you to hate each other. Their power can only be kept by Americans remaining divided. With all of that said, it will come as no surprise to our readers that the Millers were involved in the “Occupy Movement.” Again, the liberty movement is massive but the Occupy Protests tend to be attributed to the left. Bundy Ranch tends to be associated with the right. They are both cases of civil disobedience but obviously the media wants to paint a picture of the Millers as being people who voted for Romney rather than Obama. This is how the media constantly pushes the agenda of the left. Nearly every news publication in America printed something about the associations of the Millers, but very few printed this: After seeing this Photo the LVPD still didn’t think the shooters involvement with Occupy was important enough to mention in the press conference where they promptly began a media storm about the Miller’s involvement at Bundy Ranch. According to CBS Chicago: While living in Lafayette, Jerad and his wife Amanda took part in last November’s “Million Mask March” – a gathering of protesters from the Occupy movement, anarchists, and hacktivists. Nick Wertz, one of the organizers of the Lafayette march, said it attracted many people upset over a lot of issues. “Everyone there just seem kind of like normal people. At least they were going to stick up with what they thought was right,” he said. Wertz said he didn’t really know the Millers, but weeks after the march, Amanda Miller contacted him. “She was moving to Vegas for whatever reason and they had a dog they couldn’t take with – and I was like, ‘If I can help,’” Wertz said. But that was the end of it, he said. On Sunday, his Facebook page lit up, accusing him of brainwashing the Millers. “I didn’t even know anything had happened until I logged on Facebook and was being blamed for being associated with it,” Wertz said. “I was in no way, shape or form aware of these actions. I actually spent my weekend with my girlfriend at a water park.” Source: GMN In a previous article I highlighted how Ammon Bundy verified that the Millers were asked to leave the Bundy Ranch. They did not fit in and were considered to be loose cannons. Very few media outlets reported this fact either. America this is what you are up against. I hear some people complain, on a daily basis, about me rehashing the same old stories. That must be done because some people are not awake yet and your “old news” may be someone else’s “epiphany moment.” Sometimes I am late to get new information out and I apologize for that, but I am not a professional journalist. I am just a blogger who loves my country and I am trying to make a small difference, but my family still comes first. The reason I put this stuff out there is because I am hoping that others will do their best to educate America as well. Our best hope is that the Citizen Media some day overtakes the Mainstream Media. Until that happens the truth will not come out to the masses. For every report of the truth, like this one, there are dozens of politically slanted articles hosted on big websites that would blow my little blog away. Yet I continue to fight to expose the truth and I am asking you to do the same. Don’t ever give up. The truth must come out. In the end I don’t know who the Millers voted for and I don’t need to. This is not a 2nd Amendment issue or a “right versus left” issue. This is simply a case of two bad people who did a terrible thing by killing three innocent Americans. That does not reflect on me or you. It only reflects upon Jerad and Amanda Miller.

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/16/2014 10:18:58 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

More than 1 million blacklisted by bank system... Overdrew accounts, bounced a check... Developing...

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/16/2014 3:00:31 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

“Do you believe in the Easter Bunny?” CNN’s John King asked his panel of political reporters on Monday. “Do you believe in Santa Claus? Do you believe that Lois Lerner’s emails suddenly went ‘poof?’” “Waiting a year to tell the Congress makes me suspicious,” King said.

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/16/2014 3:01:24 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Qualified Opinion Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

“It’s hard to believe in this era, where you have servers, and backup servers, and all kinds of technology that can recover all kinds of emails, that these emails simply don’t exist,” Associated Press reporter Julie Pace agreed. “If that is true, and they don’t exist, why wasn’t that one of the first things that was told to Congress?” “I’m not sure what’s with this administration and computer problems, but it seems to be happening time and again,” Politico’s Manu Raju concurred

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/16/2014 6:37:33 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails: Questions for the IRS ................................................................................................... by Sharyl Attkisson June 14, 2014 sharylattkisson.com The news came late in the day on Friday the 13th. According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS reports having “lost” former IRS manager Lois Lerner’s emails to and from other IRS employees sent between January of 2009 and April of 2011 due to a ‘computer crash.’ In light of the disclosure, these are some of the logical requests that should be made of the IRS: Please provide a timeline of the crash and documentation covering when it was first discovered and by whom; when, how and by whom it was learned that materials were lost; the official documentation reporting the crash and federal data loss; documentation reflecting all attempts to recover the materials; and the remediation records documenting the fix. This material should include the names of all officials and technicians involved, as well as all internal communications about the matter. Please provide all documents and emails that refer to the crash from the time that it happened through the IRS’ disclosure to Congress Friday that it had occurred. Please provide the documents that show the computer crash and lost data were appropriately reported to the required entities including any contractor servicing the IRS. If the incident was not reported, please explain why. Please provide a list summarizing what other data was irretrievably lost in the computer crash. If the loss involved any personal data, was the loss disclosed to those impacted? If not, why? Please provide documentation reflecting any security analyses done to assess the impact of the crash and lost materials. If such analyses were not performed, why not? Please provide documentation showing the steps taken to recover the material, and the names of all technicians who attempted the recovery. Please explain why redundancies required for federal systems were either not used or were not effective in restoring the lost materials, and provide documentation showing how this shortfall has been remediated. Please provide any documents reflecting an investigation into how the crash resulted in the irretrievable loss of federal data and what factors were found to be responsible for the existence of this situation. I would also ask for those who discovered and reported the crash to testify under oath, as well as any officials who reported the materials as having been irretrievably lost. The Committee had requested the Lerner emails as part of its investigation into to the targeting of conservative non-profits by the IRS. The Obama administration has denied any corruption or intentional wrongdoing. Lerner took the Fifth when asked to testify to Congress. The House of Representatives subsequently held her in contempt. The lost materials are said to include any communications that may have occurred between Lerner and outside agencies or groups such as the White House, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice, the Federal Elections Commission and the offices of Democrats. House and Ways Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) says that along with providing news of the emails that have been lost, the IRS suggested in the same letter to Congress that it end its investigation. The late disclosure of the lost emails may be reason to disregard the suggestion.

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/16/2014 6:38:11 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Along with providing news of the emails that have been lost, the IRS suggested in the same letter to Congress that it end its investigation.

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/16/2014 7:35:01 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

White House: Explanations for lost Lerner emails 'entirely reasonable' ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "You’ve never heard of a computer crashing before?" White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters traveling with the president aboard Air Force One. "I think it’s entirely reasonable, because it’s the truth and it’s a fact, and speculation otherwise I think is indicative of the kinds of conspiracies that are propagated around this story. And they’re propagated in a way that has left people with a very mistaken impression about what exactly occurred," Earnest said.

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/17/2014 12:25:57 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

GETS BETTER-- IRS 'Loses' Emails From 6 More Involved in Targeting... ......................................................................................................................... It’s not just Lois Lerner’s e-mails. The Internal Revenue Service says it can’t produce e-mails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups , according to two Republicans investigating the scandal. The IRS told Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp and subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany that computer crashes resulted in additional lost e-mails, including from Nikole Flax, the chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller, who was fired in the wake of the targeting scandal. The revelation about Lerner’s e-mails rekindled the scandal and today’s news has further inflamed Republicans. Camp and Boustany are now demanding a special prosecutor to investigate “every angle” of the targeting. They expressed particular outrage that the agency has known since February that it would not be able to produce the e-mails requested by the committee yet did not apprise the committee of that fact, and they charged in a statement that the IRS is attempting to “cover up the fact that it convenient lost key documents in the investigation.” If Lerner is the central figure in the scandal — Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa said Monday evening he believes she was the senior-most official involved — Flax may be an important auxiliary figure. E-mails produced in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the group Judicial Watch show Flax giving the green light to Lerner’s request to meet with Department of Justice officials to explore the possibility of criminally prosecuting nonprofit groups — at the suggestion of Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse — for engaging in political activity after declaring on their application for nonprofit status that they had no plans to do so. E-mails uncovered by the committee last week showed that, in preparation for her meeting with the Department of Justice, Lerner and one of her advisers transmitted 1.1 million pages of data on nonprofit groups, including confidential taxpayer information, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, potentially in violation of federal law.

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/18/2014 12:42:02 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Six More IRS Employees Have Missing Emails; Networks Ignore In Favor of OJ

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/19/2014 6:49:39 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Gen. Hayden: The State of Iraq Is Gone ......................................................................... NewsMax ^ \| 18 Jun 2014 \| Bill Hoffmann and Melissa Clyne The country of Iraq is, for all intents and purposes, dead and has been replaced by three successor states, former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden told Newsmax TV Wednesday. "The state of Iraq as we know it is gone, and it's not going to be reconstituted," he told "The Steve Malzberg Show." "We've got three successor states there now," Hayden, a retired four star Air Force general added. "As much as we might look for opportunities to keep Iraq together, we need to be prepared for the reality that it's not going to stay together. "We should snuggle up comfortable with the Kurds in Kurdistan, who have always been pro-American and actually have a functioning society and state right now. We should give help to the Maliki government, sufficient to settle the current conflict so it just doesn't turn into a humanitarian disaster," Hayden said. "For example, there's fighting around Beiji right now, the oil refinery north of Baghdad. Baghdad needs that for that part of the country to survive, and so we've got to settle the lines of this conflict in a way that Nouri al-Maliki's surviving state, which I'll call Shiastan, has Beiji within it. "Then we've got Sunnistan, and that's the state under the control of ISIS right now, and frankly, we've got to treat that as if it were a safe haven for terrorists and begin to think about it the way we had thought about Waziristan for the last decade-plus. That's a tough message, and I'm afraid that's where we are. "Now we're at a point where we really don't have good options," Hayden told Malzberg. Hayden said "Sunnistan" consists of western Iraq and eastern Syria. "There is no border now," he said. (Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/20/2014 12:35:47 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Koch Derangement Syndrome Breaks Out After $25 Million Donation To United Negro College Fund

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6/21/2014 1:00:07 PM

From: joseffy

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The contents of Lois Lerner’s hard drive were wiped out by forces unknown “about 10 days after the Camp letter arrived,” that is to say, a letter from House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp inquiring into targeting of conservative groups. (Lerner then replied to Camp denying targeting and subsequently pleaded the Fifth before Congress.)

* A WSJ editorial this morning points out the remarkable timing of the IRS’s begrudging disclosure last Friday that evidence central to the case has been destroyed: more than a year after the investigation began and only when a deadline was impending in which the IRS commissioner would have to certify personally that the agency had produced to Congress all relevant communications. Were responsible agency officials determined to treat this as a high-priority investigation, to be carried on in good faith and with all deliberate speed? (There was no doubt about the seriousness of the scandal, as President Obama himself admitted—or seemed to be admitting—at the time.) Or did they instead stall and deflect until the very last moment? So un-forthcoming was the agency that, according to today’s Journal editorial, IRS staffers met with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) Monday and did not tell him that the external emails of six other IRS employees had gone missing too—he found that out only later in the week when he read a press release from the House side.

* While some IRS critics focus almost to the exclusion of all else on the possible role of the Obama White House in directing the IRS, Strassel and the WSJ correctly will not let us forget that much of the pressure on the agency was coming from Congress itself. In particular, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Elijah Cummings (both D-Md.), were among many Democrats seeking to enlist the IRS in a crackdown on politically antagonistic nonprofits.

Thank heavens for Kim Strassel and her colleagues at the WSJ, because otherwise it would seem as if few in the press were willing to focus serious investigative attention on this extraordinary scandal. (Many other press outlets have treated it as a dull page-A-18 story, run wire service coverage only, or–as with the New York Times–waited three days even to notice it.)

Kim Strassel and the WSJ on the Lost IRS Emails

credit jallen

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/22/2014 11:29:06 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck Respond to of 16547

An unelected regulatory agency is actively engaged in dismantling an entire industry. The IRS has become not only an enforcer for the Obamacare monstrosity, it can also be used as an attack dog to go after political opponents, even though the higher-ups are working in unison to pretend that is not the case. Now, the United States Patent Office is enforcing the arbitrary rules of the speech police, and that sickening end-around was celebrated by Democratic leadership. Taken separately, each of these is disturbing. That each is coming hot on the heels of the other should be setting off the FreakOutOMeter on both sides of the aisle. Read more: dailycaller.com

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/22/2014 11:35:40 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Hillary vs. Walker: Due Process Only Applies If You’re A Liberal .................................................................... The Federalist ^ \| 6-20-14 \| David Harsanyi Child rapists deserve due process. Conservatives governors, not so much. Two unfolding stories offer us a revealing glimpse into the extraordinarily malleable morality of the left. There is the case of Hillary Clinton’s 1975 defense of a child rapist in Arkansas. As you know, defending your client to the best of your ability is what the law demands. And the law is the law. Then there is the case of governor Wisconsin Scott Walker, someone who, though he has never been close to being found guilty (or even formally charged) of any crime, is guilty of wrongdoing by the mere existence of an accusation. Here, the law is irrelevant. Clinton. Champion of women, slayer of conspiracies, and a woman who as a lawyer once went hard at a 12-year-old rape victim in Arkansas was simply providing an invaluable constitutional service. It was her job. In the Daily Beast, the now 52-year-old victim says that “Hillary Clinton took me through Hell” — a line that would surely eradicate the political aspirations of any Republican candidate. Man or woman. Of course, the case against Clinton is not a question of whether the accused deserves a competent defense – this, we hope is settled. What it should focus on is whether Clinton deployed some of that unbridled ambition to unethically denigrate and lie about a 12-year-old who was raped. Here is a snippet from a Glenn Thrush story from 2008 that touches on the matter, gently: The case offers a glimpse into the way Clinton deals with crisis. Her approach, then and now, was to immerse herself in even unpleasant tasks with a will to win, an attitude captured in one of her favorite aphorisms: “Bloom where you’re planted.” Ah, bloom where you’re planted. According to the Daily Beast, the victim asserts that Hillary “smeared her and used dishonest tactics to successfully get her attacker off with a light sentence” — even though, she claims, Clinton knew he was guilty. Scott Walker, on the other hand, is culpable even if he functioned within the law. Probably because his views are offensive, because anyone who has an email discussion with Karl Rove or a phone conversation with the Koch Brothers is, by default, guilty of crimes against democracy. As Gabriel Malor explains in detail, the Walker investigation — driven by partisans — is basically dead despite a two-year long secret probe that was unable to make a case worthy of prosecution. Some prosecutor said “criminal scheme” so it’s over. If that were the case, the Clintons would never have been able to rent out the White House. The reporting on the matter was entirely predictable. Outlets continue to use the present tense to explain the investigation. For the most egregious examples read the Washington Post, New York Times and Jonathan Chait — who mentions the existence of “Republican-appointed judges” three times in one post, but never the partisan nature of the prosecutors. Of course, all of this is meant to cloud the prospects of perhaps the strongest presidential contender available to Republicans. Job done. But to recap: Child rapists deserve due process. Conservatives governors, not so much. To: afraidfortherepublic The Law is used to advance the left. 15 million criminal aliens; do they get due process? 3 posted on 6/22/2014, 7:05:34 AM by Neoliberalnot (

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/24/2014 9:42:08 AM
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Cloward-Piven is now a staple of leftist electoral campaign strategy. As one commenter recently noted the Obama reelection campaign’s 2012 strategy “wasn’t just to publish propaganda, but to publish (and) distribute propaganda in such magnitudes that that folks didn’t even have to think about it, they would just foam at the mouth at the mere mention of (Mitt) Romney’s name.”

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/24/2014 10:09:56 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

GALLUP: Obama favorability dips well below Bush, Carter...

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (10990)	6/24/2014 10:10:39 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Hillary collects $225k to speak at university raising tuition on students... Bill to get nearly $1 million from federal government in 2014...