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Sunday, May 19, 2013

 









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Analyze this
White House spokesnoid finds question about O's
whereabouts on Benghazi night, "Offensive."
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Evidence emerges that Obama administration official knew
of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign

Someone at CBS is wide awake.
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Camelot is Burning
We didn't start the fire.
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Connect the dots to Obama
Start with well-drawn, precise questions answered with 20 yard
stares and responses that sound like hummina-hummina-hummina.
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Capitol Powerball Scandals Grease Washington´s Wheels
Lawyers are never out of work for long.
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Obama adminstration talking points scrubbed
jihadists from Cairo as well as Benghazi

Use of the rat-linked word "scurry" in first graph here
is probably subliminal.
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Must Reads for Saturday, May 18, 2013
Yesterday's Must-Reads for those who missed.
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Ldotter Note: Don't Forget to Visit TheConnection
The Place Where Eagles Gather.
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Must Read Archive [Last 60 Days]




It Must Be Spring: Two eaglets in a nest at Lake Casitas,
marking what authorities say is the first mainland hatching
in Ventura County reported in 90 years.



Latest Articles

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Netanyahu takes aim at
weapons leakage in Syria
Reuters, by Jeffrey Heller    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 4:25:47 PM     Post Reply
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. (Snip) In public remarks at the weekly meeting of his cabinet, Netanyahu made no direct mention of those attacks, but said Israel was prepared to take action in the future and was "preparing for every scenario" in the Syrian conflict. Israel had a policy "to prevent, as much as possible, the leakage of advanced weapons to Hezbollah and terror elements", he said.

Holy Cannibalism, Bat Man:
Liberals Are Eating Liberals
Townhall, by Doug Giles    Original Article
Posted By: lcl4- 5/19/2013 4:12:04 PM     Post Reply
Grab some popcorn, folks. Pull up a chair. Get yourself a 6 pack. No … a 12pack and join with me and other liberty-minded folks as we watch the Left finally sink their comedic and inquisitive teeth into the rotted flesh of the Hope & Crap Machine that we’ve been caterwauling about for the last five, seems like twenty, years. I don’t know about you guys but last week was a little gift from God as we got to see the Lame Stream Media get a modicum of game and finally call Obama and his ilk out on the carpet for their Benghazi Bullsmack, their egregious bullying of patriotic non-profits by the IRS

Moon hit by boulder-size meteoroid,
causing ´explosion´ visible
from earth (+video)
Christian Science Monitor, by Mark Trumbull    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 4:07:35 PM     Post Reply
If you had been looking up at the moon at the right moment on March 17, you could have seen an unusual flash of light – a one-second burst of heat caused by the impact of a large meteoroid. No telescope required. “For about one second, the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star,” NASA said in reporting the news Friday. This meteoroid was the size of a small boulder, and was travelling very fast. NASA estimates the size at 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide, and the speed at 56,000 m.p.h. The resulting explosion delivered a force equal to 5 tons of TNT. NASA puts a footnote on the word

  


  

Obama admits he’s a socialist
New York Post, by Kyle Smith    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:59:42 PM     Post Reply
You may be forgiven if you missed it during last week’s tsunami of scandals, but President Obama finally let slip that he is a socialist. Buried in the 17th paragraph of one of those mewling New York Times pieces on the woes of Obama — can we start calling him Woe-bama yet? — appeared these two words: “going Bulworth.” Obama himself, the Times explained, has been “longingly” telling his inner circle that what he’d really like to do is what Sen. Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty in his 1998 movie “Bulworth,” did: to go public as

Candy Crowley: Is it Possible
This Isn´t Political and
IRS Didn´t Intend to Harass
the Tea Party?
Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:54:02 PM     Post Reply
"Can you see in your mind´s eye a way that this might not have been political, that this was a misguided stupid way to sort, but that they didn´t intend it to be some kind of political attempt to harass the Tea Party?" So actually asked CNN´s Candy Crowley of her guest Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) concerning the Internal Revenue Service scandal Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary):CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: Moving on to the IRS problem at this moment, which is really sort of in its infancy. There will be lots more hearings coming up this week

WH: Legality of IRS Action
Against Conservatives ´Irrelevant´
Breitbart Big Government, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:43:10 PM     Post Reply
Appearing on Sunday morning on ABC News’ This Week, White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told a credulous George Stephanopoulos that the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups was “inexcusable,” and that the law with regard to the activity was “irrelevant.” “I can’t speak to the law here,” he said. “The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped and it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again.” When asked for clarification, Pfeiffer expounded: “What I mean is, whether it’s legal or illegal is not important to the fact

WH: ´Irrelevant´ Who
Edited Benghazi Talking Points
Breitbart Big Government, by William Bigelow    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:40:46 PM     Post Reply
Appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said that it was “largely irrelevant” who edited the talking points the Obama administration trotted out in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Host Bob Schieffer asked, “That was just a PR plan, to send out somebody who didn’t know anything about what had happened. Why did you do that? Why didn’t the Secretary of State come and tell us what they knew, and if they knew nothing, say ‘We don’t know yet?’ …. Why are you here today?

  


  

WH: ´Irrelevant´ Where Obama
Was During Benghazi Attacks
Breitbart Big Government, by Ben Shapiro    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:37:54 PM     Post Reply
On Fox News Sunday this morning, White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer was asked by Chris Wallace where in the White House President Obama was during the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans. “Question,” asked Wallace. “What did the President do the rest of that night to pursue Benghazi?” Pfeiffer answered, “Look, the President was kept up to date on this as it was happening the entire night, from the moment it started until the very end …. I recognize that there’s a series of conspiracy theories Republicans have been spinning about it

Non-deportation rate
drops — to 99.2 percent
Washington Times [DC], by Stephen Dinan    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:28:53 PM     Post Reply
The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama’s new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday. That’s a slight drop from the 99.5 percent approval rate reported last month. The policy, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, grants legal status to most illegal immigrants under the age of 31 who came to the U.S. before age 16 — usually brought by their parents. They are allowed to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation, and are given work

Obama gets personal about
race and manhood in Morehouse
speech
Washington Post, by Philip Rucker    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:21:26 PM     Post Reply
President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities. Delivering a commencement address at the all-male private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Obama spoke in deeply personal terms about the “special obligation” he feels as a black man to help those left behind. “There but for the grace of God, I might be in their shoes,” Obama said. “I might have been in prison.

Gun control: Cartridge
ID law to take effect
San Francisco Chronicle, by Bob Egelko    Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon- 5/19/2013 2:34:55 PM     Post Reply
A hotly contested gun-control law that was passed in 2007 is finally ready to be implemented, Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday: a requirement that every new semiautomatic handgun contain "micro-stamping" technology that would allow police to trace a weapon from cartridges found at a crime scene. The law, signed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, made California the first state to require micro-stamping, which engraves the gun´s serial number on each cartridge. (Snip) But at a Los Angeles news conference Friday, Harris announced that micro-stamping had cleared all technological

  



Washington scandals intrude on
Mass. Senate race pitting GOP´s
Gomez against Democrat Markey
Associated Press, by Steve LeBlanc & Bob Salsberg    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 2:32:38 PM     Post Reply
Boston - The controversies swirling around the Obama administration — from the IRS targeting of conservative groups to lingering questions about last year´s terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya — are threatening to engulf Massachusetts´ special U.S. Senate election. The troubles could make it harder for Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez to turn the focus of the race back on jobs, the economy and budget as he tries to tie his rival and longtime Democratic Congressman Edward Markey to the nation´s sluggish recovery. But the episodes could also prove problematic for Markey if the public begins

Alleged Unmasked
CIA Agent Leaves Moscow
RIA Novosti [Russia], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 2:21:08 PM     Post Reply
Moscow - Ryan Fogle, the man Russia´s security services claimed to have captured last week as he tried to recruit a Russian to spy for the United States, left Russia on Sunday, NTV television reported. Fogle checked in on a flight at Moscow´s Sheremetyevo airport, NTV said. The Russian Foreign Ministry had earlier declared Fogle, a third secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, persona non grata for "activity incompatible with his diplomatic status." He was told to leave Russia by May 20. The Russian Federal Security Service claimed last Tuesday to have detained Fogle in the act of meeting

Woodward: It Isn’t Watergate,
but It Is Nixonian
Wall Street Journal, by Dion Nissenbaum    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 2:04:47 PM     Post Reply
Washington - Veteran journalist Bob Woodward accused Obama administration officials of invoking the worst instincts of former President Richard Nixon in their response to last year’s deadly attack on two U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya. “This is not Watergate, but there are some people in the administration who have acted as if they want to be Nixonian, and that’s a very big problem,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The longtime Washington Post journalist, whose reporting on the Watergate burglary led to the resignation of Mr. Nixon in 1974, questioned the Obama

Obama: There´s no longer
room for excuses for black men
USA Today, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 2:02:40 PM     Post Reply
President Obama told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country´s preeminent historically black college, on Sunday said there is "no longer any room for excuses" for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives. (Snip) "We´ve got no time for excuses – not because the bitter legacies of slavery and segregation have vanished entirely; they haven´t," Obama told the graduating class and their family who sat through intermittent rain and thunder. "It's just that in today's hyperconnected,

  


  

‘Totally Misleading’: Chris
Wallace Grills White House
Adviser Over Benghazi Emails,
Talking Points
Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 1:40:13 PM     Post Reply
White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer made the Sunday show rounds this week, including a stop at Fox News Sunday, where Chris Wallace pressed him on the administration’s handling of and response to the Benghazi attack. Wallace persisted on the topic of the emails about the talking points in particular — but the two couldn’t manage to agree. Wallace began by questioning Pfeiffer about what President Obama did the night of the attack and whether he was in the situation room — but Pfeiffer said Obama was kept updated, and didn’t provide specifics, contending that which room

Adviser on White House
scandals: "Partisan fishing
expeditions" won´t distract Obama
CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 1:35:48 PM     Post Reply
"Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation," won´t "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the IRS´ conduct was wrong and should be fixed. "It´s inexcusable conduct that needs to be fixed," Pfeiffer said. "It was an incredible breach of the public´s trust, and we have to repair that breach; no question about that." But "this is a Republican

CNN Poll: Obama approval
rating unharmed by controversies
Washington Post, by Sean Sullivan    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 1:15:19 PM     Post Reply
Even as his administration has faced intense scrutiny over a trio of controversies, President Obama’s approval rating hasn’t suffered, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll released Sunday. Fifty-three percent of Americans said they approve of the job the president is doing, while 45 percent said they disapprove. That’s virtually unchanged from an early April survey in which Obama’s approval/disapproval split was 51 percent to 47 percent. The poll is one of the earliest indicators of how Obama’s image has been affected during one of the worst weeks of his presidency.

Minnesota Somalis react to
sentences in al-Shabab case
with mix of outrage, relief
Associated Press, by Amy Forliti    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 1:11:39 PM     Post Reply
Minneapolis - Wide-ranging sentences handed down in the yearslong federal investigation into recruiting and financing for the terrorist group al-Shabab have kindled a mix of outrage, confusion and relief among members of Minnesota´s large Somali community. Some say the 10- and 20-year prison sentences for two Minnesota women who sent money to the group were too harsh, especially since two men who traveled to Somalia and joined al-Shabab got three years. The attorney for one man sentenced to 20 years in prison has already filed a notice of appeal; more are expected.

Pfeiffer on IRS Scandal:
The Law Is Irrelevant
Washington Free Beacon, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 5/19/2013 1:06:30 PM     Post Reply
White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer said “the law is irrelevant” when asked by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday about whether President Obama thought the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups was illegal: Stephanopoulos: What does the president believe? Does the president believe that would be illegal? Pfeiffer: I can’t speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous (Snip) Stephanopoulos: You don’t really mean the law is irrelevant, do you? Pfeiffer: What I mean is whether it’s legal or illegal is not important to the fact that the conduct doesn’t matter.

  



The Treasury connection:
Not merely an IRS scandal
Washington Post, by Jennifer Ruben    Original Article
Posted By: mitzi- 5/19/2013 12:57:57 PM     Post Reply
The Internal Revenue Service scandal may be the worst of all the current Obama administration fiascoes. It is an easily understood gross misuse of the powers of government to target opponents of the president. What is more, the administration’s supplicants in the lefty punditocracy can no longer claim this is just an IRS scandal. (snip) Are we to believe, with allegations of IRS harassment swirling in the media, that these two officials nodded, returned to their offices and told no one? If so, they are guilty of suppressing a huge scandal in an election year.

Obama Denies Role in Government
New Yorker, by Andy Borowitz    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/19/2013 12:57:20 PM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON —President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years. “Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no one is angrier than I am,” he said. “Quite frankly, I am glad that I have had no involvement in such an organization.” The President’s outrage only increased, he said, when he “recently became aware of a part of that government called the Department of Justice.” “The more I learn about the activities of these individuals,

North Korea fires short-range
missiles for two days in a row
Reuters, by Jane Chung & Alissa de Carbonnel    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 12:56:02 PM     Post Reply
Seoul - North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on Sunday, a day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers. Launches by the North of short-range missiles are not uncommon but, after recent warnings from the communist state of impending nuclear war, such actions have raised concerns about the region´s security. (Snip) U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was concerned about North Korea´s launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear

Obama’s Secret to Corruption:
Never Appoint a Special Counsel
Canada Free Press, by Fred Dardick    Original Article
Posted By: snowcloud- 5/19/2013 12:41:05 PM     Post Reply
Do you ever wonder how Obama gets away with the most outrageous acts ever perpetrated by a sitting president with barely a nick to his reputation? Did you scratch your head when not a single Justice Department or ATF official went to jail for sending hundreds of guns over the border to Mexican drug lords with the expressed purpose of fomenting violent crime? Do you really think high ranking government officials are going to be held accountable for the now blazing IRS and Benghazi scandals? If these and other questions like them have been bothering you for the past few years,

Single winning ticket for
$590.5M Powerball lottery
jackpot sold in Florida
Reuters, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 12:40:28 PM     Post Reply
Only one winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said, but there was no official word about who won it. The winning numbers from Saturday night´s drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11, and the odds of winning were put at one in 175 million. (Snip) Had Saturday´s drawing failed to yield a winner, the jackpot for the next drawing, set for Wednesday, would have risen to $925 million. After Saturday´s results were announced, the jackpot was reset back to $40 million.

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