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Bloomberg on Unarmed Sandy
Hook Principal: "I Don´t Know
What A Gun Would Have Done"

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/17/2012 1:48:07 PM

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who politicized the Sandy Hook tragedy within hours last Friday, just wrapped up a press conference announcing new plans to fight gun violence and to counter the National Rifle Association with his own Super PAC. Bloomberg was asked by a reporter to respond to Rep. Louie Gohmert´s comments over the weekend that he wished the principal of the school, who died trying to take down shooter Adam Lanza, had a gun. Bloomberg responded by saying, "There are dumb statements and then there are stupid statements.....

Comments:
That statement perfectly illustrates the insanity coming from these self-righteous leftists. Who made them the arbitor of everything that is supposedly right for us?

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: JustCause, 12/17/2012 1:52:39 PM     (No. 9071112)

Gun Control is a theory espoused by some monumentally stupid people; who claim to believe, against all logic and common sense, that a violent predator who ignores the laws prohibiting them from robbing, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing their fellow human beings will obey a law telling them that they cannot own a gun.

Bloomberg is over his head in a parking lot puddle...


Reply 2 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 12/17/2012 1:55:02 PM     (No. 9071121)

Someone needs to explain to Mayor Mike what a gun, with proper training & accessibility, could have done.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40, 12/17/2012 1:55:52 PM     (No. 9071123)

Gun control is like lowering the speed limit to prevent bank robbers from escaping. Only libtard idiots such as ´Nanny´ Bloomberg fail to see this.


Reply 4 - Posted by: SpeedMaster, 12/17/2012 1:57:19 PM     (No. 9071126)

The question; "if the principal was trained and armed how many children would still be alive?"


Reply 5 - Posted by: Coy860, 12/17/2012 2:00:47 PM     (No. 9071132)

Was he surrounded by his ARMED security people?
Make them give up their guns, Bloomy. Put up or shut up.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Rather Read, 12/17/2012 2:03:56 PM     (No. 9071141)

Well, Nanny Bloomberg, there was an incident when two thugs came into an internet cafe with robbery and who knows what else on their minds. Too bad for them, there was a senior citizen who had a gun - concealed carry - and he knew how to use it. The thugs were wounded, and later arrested and the patrons of the cafe were not harmed.

That´s what a gun in the hands of a law abiding citizen can do


Reply 7 - Posted by: JAN, 12/17/2012 2:04:52 PM     (No. 9071142)

It would be funny if it wasn´t so deadly dangerous.

And by the way, Mayor, do you feel any responsibility to protect the unborn?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: LudicrousSextus, 12/17/2012 2:05:35 PM     (No. 9071145)

Spectacular intro paragraph! Love the ending ellipses...

After - ´Bloomberg responded by saying, "There are dumb statements and then there are stupid statements.....´

Ninety percent of readers would obviously finish that pontification with ´....and I have a solid history of uttering both...´

Rock on Bloomberg. You stick to your soda-pop-cop act, Obama can stick to ignoring Chi-town murder stats, and both of you might want to reflect on the fact that Team Obama/Holder *killed* more effective background checks in order to ´facilitate´ re-election.

And an *excellent* article on National Review Online - ´The Facts about Mass Shootings´.

Of course ´facts´ are wasted on liberals, but it´s fun poking ´em with ´em...


Reply 9 - Posted by: MrYules, 12/17/2012 2:05:56 PM     (No. 9071147)

Unarmed persons are often helpless when faced with a "man (woman) with a gun", whether the armed offender is a "civilian" or an agent of the people who call themselves "government". Save your breath trying to talk to people like Mr. Bloomberg. They prefer "citizens" to be vulnerable (unarmed), docile, polite, and properly appreciative of their "betters" (such as Mr. Bloomberg).


Reply 10 - Posted by: Mazeman, 12/17/2012 2:15:35 PM     (No. 9071153)

The shooter killed himself the minute someone with a gun arrived.


Reply 11 - Posted by: bobgray2, 12/17/2012 2:20:12 PM     (No. 9071159)

Well we know what happened without the Principal or any other adult in the school, having a gun.
Criminals are going to get guns because you can´t un-invent the gun. They aren´t hard to make, and if you can´t even keep drugs out of the country, what makes you think you can keep guns out. Look at Britain. Some of the harshest and draconian gun laws in the world and gun violence is skyrocketing.


Reply 12 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 12/17/2012 2:21:38 PM     (No. 9071163)

´Red´ Bloomberg. Do you think if the principal had had FIVE armed bodyguards like yours that that would have helped her?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Mr. Know-It-All, 12/17/2012 2:22:40 PM     (No. 9071165)

Of course no one can "know" what would have happened, but perhaps the end of the story would have been something like this....

http://easybakegunclub.com/blog/1968/Concealed-Carry-Hero-at-Portland-Mall---The-Full-S.html


Reply 14 - Posted by: Evocatus, 12/17/2012 2:24:02 PM     (No. 9071166)

We want to know how many men with guns are on Mayor Bloomberg´s Security Detail and we want the the New York City Council and the New York State Legislature to de-fund and dis-band Mayor Bloomberg´s Security Detail and re-allocate the resources to elementary school security. And, we want it now, preferably beginning on a voluntary basis from Major Bloomberg himself.

Hold your breath waiting for the f´ing hypocrites to take this action.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Bevan, 12/17/2012 2:24:13 PM     (No. 9071167)

By his own logic cops and his security detail should be disarmed


Reply 16 - Posted by: bighambone, 12/17/2012 2:26:31 PM     (No. 9071171)

I don´t believe in gun control other then prudent steps like background checks that are effective to keep crazy people and criminals from gaining access to guns which we obviously don´t have now.

But common sense will tell you that the vast majority of elementary school teachers, like nurses and psychologists, are not people who are wired for, or have any desire, to become trained in using firearms.

In that respect schools would be much safer if they employed police officers who are especially trained to deal with young people to provide armed security inside the schools. If that had been the case, the Connecticut perpetrator would have been almost immediately challenged by an armed and trained police officer as he was shooting out the apparently locked glass entry door at the school. You also have to figure that if he he knew that he was going to encounter an armed police officer as he entered the school, that he might not have tried out his evil school mass shooting plan in the first place.


Reply 17 - Posted by: SouthSanAntonio, 12/17/2012 2:26:55 PM     (No. 9071172)

Even if she just got off a couple of rounds and missed before he shot her, his mindset would have changed drastically.

To go from shooting lots of unarmed kids, to any adult there possibly being armed, he may very well have high tailed it out of that school at that instant.

Proof number 87,255,189 that lie-berals are simply incapable of understanding logic, reason or simple facts. They only understand feelings, and this just feels to Bloomberg like he must be right.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: dman, 12/17/2012 2:34:02 PM     (No. 9071178)

"There are none so blind as those who will not see" - source uncertain, but certainly applies to the Mayor´s moronic statement.


Reply 19 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 12/17/2012 2:34:24 PM     (No. 9071180)

Of course, if the good Red Mayor were simply to hang a sign around his neck reading: ´I am a gun-free zone´ then he would not need those highly-paid FIVE armed bodyguards.
Right, Comrade Bloomberg?!


Reply 20 - Posted by: The Architect, 12/17/2012 2:36:13 PM     (No. 9071183)

You don´t know what a gun would have done? Well, in the first place the gun by itself would have done nothing. It needs a trained human to operate it. And since you appear to be intellectually challanged, I´ll make it easy for you. You know what the gun did to those poor little kids!? Well, thats also what a gun in the hands of a trained teacher could have done to the bad guy. Its not rocket science you moron.


Reply 21 - Posted by: LadyHen, 12/17/2012 2:41:35 PM     (No. 9071200)

Okay then Bloomberg, I throw out the argument that we should then disarm everyone, including all police, all government officials, the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and ALL public or private security personnel... and I mean every last gun, period. No one has guns regardless of position, rank, or status. If all the guns are outlawed and gone and guns do nothing according to this monumental idiot, then why do your personal security detail need guns? Less talk, more action you castrated weakling!! Put your money where your mouth is you sad sack of puss!!

Throw that argument in his face and see how his entitled,power grubbing, "let them eat cake" class squirms. They won´t defend themselves for fear of being labelled unsophisticated and "conservative" but they sure as hell like having big unsophisticated, conservative men with big black scary guns watching their miserable backsides. Hypocrites!!


Reply 22 - Posted by: John21, 12/17/2012 2:52:31 PM     (No. 9071222)

of course he doesn´t know, you would have to have a least a minimul level of intelligence to know something and he has more than proven he does not have that.

All he has is what his liberal friends tell him is good and right.

You can not fix this kind of stupidity.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: cal riptide, 12/17/2012 2:53:48 PM     (No. 9071224)

#18. That´s from the Ray Steven´s song, "Everything is Beautiful".


Reply 24 - Posted by: tennman, 12/17/2012 3:01:58 PM     (No. 9071244)

We´re looking at the results of what guns in the hands of a madman can do. Imagine if there´d been someone there to shoot back.


Reply 25 - Posted by: DCGIRL, 12/17/2012 3:04:48 PM     (No. 9071250)

This man is a total idiot. Someone trained to use a firearm would have been able to save alot of the children.


Reply 26 - Posted by: alynnmcw, 12/17/2012 3:09:16 PM     (No. 9071265)

Let me show you. Come into my place of business with a gun. Start shooting. Bang you´re dead! It is a shame people so stupid can procreate.


Reply 27 - Posted by: god of irony, 12/17/2012 3:12:05 PM     (No. 9071273)

Ok Mayor Bloomberg put your money where your mouth is and get rid of your armed security detail and go walk around the rough neighborhoods at night alone.


Reply 28 - Posted by: old dinasaur, 12/17/2012 3:13:57 PM     (No. 9071275)

If the principal and several teachers had been armed and trained, the worst that could have happened is 27 people killed. Thats the worst. There would probably have been a lot less. People as stupid as nanny Bloombutt are total idiots. Unfortunately they are allowed to walk among us.


Reply 29 - Posted by: toodles3956, 12/17/2012 3:15:09 PM     (No. 9071277)

Is this guy just stupid or what?


Reply 30 - Posted by: NYbob, 12/17/2012 3:28:55 PM     (No. 9071292)

I sort of agree on one point with the tiny mayor. Some people should not have guns. Most actors seem too emotionally unstable, and perhaps the bodyguards that loom over the pipsqueak mayor. How about giving YOUR bodyguards non lethal means of defense? Pepper spray or tasers, mayor? Set an example for once in your life.

Having a firearm should be a sobering experience. If the door person or Principal at some schools can´t handle the idea of lethal force, at least take responsibility for your gun free ´zone´ with multiple layers of hard to defeat protection, locks and spray areas and finally tasers in every secure area.


Reply 31 - Posted by: mackrand, 12/17/2012 3:33:18 PM     (No. 9071300)

Bloomberg is a professional politician, what more do you need to know? Of course he wouldn´t know what a gun would do. Cheney and Ryan could let him know how that works however. But then those two don´t speak to lunatics if they can help it.

By the way, take our guns, then we will all break out the crossbows to shoot the criminals who will be the only ones left that have guns. Like Australia and Great Britain.


Reply 32 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter, 12/17/2012 3:39:42 PM     (No. 9071315)

Come on, L-Dotters - you´re not getting it. His posse is only armed because others around him might be. Once we pass the law banning gun ownership and everyone turns theirs in...


Reply 33 - Posted by: Keekng, 12/17/2012 3:42:07 PM     (No. 9071318)

Bloomberg is hopeless.


Reply 34 - Posted by: harper, 12/17/2012 3:51:30 PM     (No. 9071334)

As mayor of NYC, Boombox has as much justification for bloviating on this topic as the leftard mayor of Chicago. None. They are no better, morally speaking, than Michael Moore or any other leftist buzzard perched in a tree, always ready to flop down and feast off the dead and dieing to further their selfish needs.

Shame on them.


Reply 35 - Posted by: birddog, 12/17/2012 3:52:05 PM     (No. 9071336)

No Sir, you do not know what it "might" have done. Yet we ALL now know what the lack of one did.


Reply 36 - Posted by: tylermc, 12/17/2012 4:03:07 PM     (No. 9071350)

I heard Sen. Feinstein say earlier " I have spoken with people in the know about these assault rifles and they say it´s game over when someone has one of these". Then I heard the president of national teachers association say something similar - how can teachers protect their students from someone with an assault rifle? These two scholars don´t realize it but they have made our case for us.


Reply 37 - Posted by: kennedylaw, 12/17/2012 4:14:59 PM     (No. 9071365)

Obesity is a national problem and results in countless unnecessary medical costs and deaths. Clearly, we need to ban forks, knives and other eating utensils. If everyone was forced to use straws and chop sticks the national obesity problem would be solved.

I am just being facetious, but don´t mention this idea in front of Bloomberg because he will want to do it.


Reply 38 - Posted by: kennedylaw, 12/17/2012 4:18:06 PM     (No. 9071369)

#37. I heard Sen. Feinstein say earlier "I have spoken with people in the know about these assault rifles and they say it´s game over when someone has one of these."

Let´s pretend for a moment that Feinstein is not completely full of bovine excrement. If this were true, then I would definitely want to buy my daughters assault rifles for Christmas.

Who would want to deprive women and children of a surefire way to defend themselves?


Reply 39 - Posted by: paral04, 12/17/2012 4:43:01 PM     (No. 9071408)

Is Bloomberg willing to disarm his security if we take guns away from citizens? Might ask him


Reply 40 - Posted by: bobgray2, 12/17/2012 4:49:51 PM     (No. 9071423)

For starters, someone with a gun could have, at the very least, restricted the shooters movements. Just a single round fired in his direction would have slowed him down and had him looking for cover giving the cops time to show up.


Reply 41 - Posted by: Marcus Tullius, 12/17/2012 4:50:10 PM     (No. 9071424)

Mr. Totalitarian Mayor Wannabe,

Statistically speaking, the use of a gun in defense of the students and teachers at Sandy Hook would have meant approximately 17 fewer victims and 17 more survivors. A little further back, it would have meant 22 more survivors of the Virginia Tech attack in 2007.

And that assumes those attacks would have occurred. The known presence of defensive weapons prevents some 80% of potential mass murder attacks (predators like soft targets).

All told, if we had 100 undefended attacks that killed five people apiece (500 total dead), but prevented 80% of them because defensive weapons were present, and reduced actual casualties at the remaining attacks by the documented 64% rate, those attacks would result in 460 fewer dead than if no guns were present.

Your flippant disregard of the probability that these 17 lives could have been saved (and perhaps even more) says much about the state of your personal morality and shows it severely lacking in true and honest compassion and humanity.

Since, in your studied opinion, you don´t know what a gun would have done because they are apparently useless as defensive weapons, I recommend you disarm your own security detail of their guns, and stop carrying your own.

Sincerely,

The United States Constitution
Second Amendment


Reply 42 - Posted by: killerbee, 12/17/2012 4:57:32 PM     (No. 9071438)

Gah! What a flippin´ stooge!

I´ll tell you, Mayor Nanny (apologies to actual nannies), what it would have done:

1. the principal might have shot the guy and stop the whole thing immediately
2. the principal might have scared the guy away (that does happen more often than not)
3. the principal may have caused the guy to shoot himself on the spot (that also happens a lot)
4. the principal might have been shot, but then the shooter has to wonder who else in the school might have a gun so he decides to either kill himself or take it all someplace else.

If the principal had had a gun, it is more likely than not that lives would have been saved. Possibly a whole room full of kids.


Reply 43 - Posted by: franq, 12/17/2012 5:06:55 PM     (No. 9071455)

With leaders like Red, it´s no wonder we´re in a quagmire.


Reply 44 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 12/17/2012 5:25:15 PM     (No. 9071480)

News flash: Feinstein spoke to ´assault weapons´ expert, Barney Frank.


Reply 45 - Posted by: woodsman, 12/17/2012 6:04:06 PM     (No. 9071525)

Hey Mike....walk down the hall and ask Ray Kelly that question


Reply 46 - Posted by: fpcgal, 12/17/2012 6:09:58 PM     (No. 9071537)

You know, CT banned the death penalty in their state, forgot what year it was passed. What would have happened if Lanza id not turn the gun on himself and just put his hands up. He would have been sentenced to life in prison without parole! Could all those families have lived with that?


Reply 47 - Posted by: RKfree2b, 12/17/2012 6:11:31 PM     (No. 9071541)

Using that logic, get rid of all guns used by your security staff, Bloomberg, and all security staffs used by Federal government in Washington DC; the guns are the problem, so keep them away from everybody. There, now you and everyone in Washington DC are safe.


Reply 48 - Posted by: yorkiemom, 12/17/2012 6:45:40 PM     (No. 9071593)

I am more and more convinced that our so-called leaders are the dumbest people on the face of the earth. I´m sick of them, the libs, and the horses they rode in on.


Reply 49 - Posted by: aintnojoke, 12/17/2012 6:53:09 PM     (No. 9071606)

These murderers are always cowards. They ever get it on with armed people.


Reply 50 - Posted by: Democracy First, 12/17/2012 8:03:56 PM     (No. 9071688)

All that money and not one lick of sense. Bloomfield is mayor of NYC, not governor of CT, so why doesn´t he shut his pie hole ??


Reply 51 - Posted by: Boneshaker, 12/17/2012 8:11:15 PM     (No. 9071697)

Clearly, all that is needed is a new law making it illegal to ignore existing laws that prohibit harming and killing people.

/s


Reply 52 - Posted by: Rumblehog, 12/17/2012 8:21:56 PM     (No. 9071712)

The hypocrite Doomberg has armed guards around him 24x7.


Reply 53 - Posted by: JustCause, 12/17/2012 8:41:28 PM     (No. 9071724)

52 - don´t say that too loud - our politicians will take you seriously...


Reply 54 - Posted by: Italiano, 12/17/2012 9:11:16 PM     (No. 9071749)

Reasoned debate is impossible and pointless with such people. All that is really left to say is Molon Labe.

And be prepared for the consequences.


Reply 55 - Posted by: KimoSaavy, 12/17/2012 10:29:49 PM     (No. 9071837)

My goodness. Is he daft or what? To other principals and teachers who somehow have access to a gun, message to you: This WILL happen again.

Instructions as follows:

1) See crazy man in your school brandishing weapons (oh yes, knives, samurai swords, guns).
2) Crazy man means business and will kill kids. Are you weavering? Then remember Colorado, and Virginia Tech, heck, even China. If still not sure, you have now Sandy Hook to convince you.
3) Take out your weapon and shoot right between the eyes because he may have a vest. Keep firing until he is flat on the ground.

I think Bloomberg´s body guards have exactly the same intructions. Jerky.


Reply 56 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 12/18/2012 12:21:50 AM     (No. 9071940)

Topic: Bloomberg on Unarmed Sandy
Hook Principal: "I Don´t Know
What A Gun Would Have Done"

Change the title to read:
I don´t know what I would have done with a gun.

Trust me, when it comes down to me or thee, any employee in that school would have made the decision to shoot to protect themselves and those children.



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Posted By: smcchk- 6/19/2013 12:41:02 AM     Post Reply
A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago. However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down. Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded

Edward Snowden Is In The
Process Of Destroying Any Support
And Sympathy He Has Built Up

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Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 6/18/2013 5:34:23 AM     Post Reply
Amid a steady rise of backlash, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency´s surveillance methods, conducted a live chat on The Guardian´s website Monday morning. Judging from some of the pointed questions he´s been asked and the reaction to newly leaked revelations over the past few days, it´s clear that much of the sympathy and support Snowden had built up for his early exposures is eroding. Many Americans supported his decision to leak information about a pair of National Security Agency surveillance programs, which, he detailed, gathered information

Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer Says
Joint Chief’s Chairman Lied to Congress

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Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:06:14 PM     Post Reply
An attorney whose firm represents two Benghazi whistleblowers said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lied to the Senate when he said there was never a “stand down” order during the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012. “What was fascinating is that he explained his lie to them,” Joe DiGenova, an attorney representing one of the whistleblowers, told CNSNews.com. “He actually said they were sent to Tripoli. They were needed in Benghazi,” said DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney, now with the Washington firm of DiGenova & Toensing.

Barbara Walters Defends Maher
Calling Trig Palin Retarded:
‘I Don´t Think He Intended
it to be Mean-Spirited’

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Newsbusters, by John Nolte    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 6/17/2013 5:19:02 PM     Post Reply
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?

Jeb Bush labels conservative
critics ‘the chirpers’

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Washington Post, by Aaron Blake    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/17/2013 1:22:30 PM     Post Reply
Jeb Bush says he’s not worried that his work toward comprehensive immigration reform and his ties to the GOP establishment will alienate conservatives and negatively impact a potential 2016 presidential campaign, referring to critics as “the chirpers.” “If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record,” the former Florida governor said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. “And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.” Bush (R) pointed to his conservative

Obama: You Can´t Fathom
´Complexities´ of Syria
Policy ´If You Haven´t Been
in Situation Room´

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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/18/2013 5:30:04 PM     Post Reply
Charlie Rose last night asked President Obama his new Syria policy. The president first objected to it being called a new policy. "I´m not sure you can characterize this as a new policy. This is consistent with the policy that I´ve had throughout," he said. Obama then explained the goal is regional stability, and especially in Syria. "Really, what we´re trying to do is take sides against extremists of all sorts and in favor of people who are in favor of moderation, tolerance, representative government, and over the long-term, stability and prosperity for the people of Syria," said Obama.

The IRS Immigration Fraud Scandal
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 10:37:24 AM     Post Reply
Marco Rubio. Paul Ryan. The IRS. Illegal immigration. And fraud to the tune of billions.. Now there’s a combustible mix. Let’s start with the IRS, illegal immigration and fraud. We’ll come back in a minute to Senator Rubio and Congressman Ryan. For those who came in late, a year before the IRS scandals burst onto the scene in early May of 2013, an alert investigative reporter for WTHR-Indianapolis (Channel 13), Bob Segall by name, produced a stunning piece of journalism. Segall’s video report is found here and we will quote from his story for the basics.

At least try to look interested,
girls! Now Michelle Obama takes
her daughters to see the ruins of
an Irish monastery (but they get
to have lunch with Bono later)

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Daily Mail [UK], by Louise Boyle, Jill Reilly    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/18/2013 1:37:11 PM     Post Reply
The Obamas never miss an opportunity to mingle with the stars and during a two-day trip in Dublin, who better to have lunch with than iconic Irish rocker and philanthropist Bono? First Lady Michelle along with daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, started Tuesday with an hour-long visit to picturesque Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains--but the two girls looked like they would have rather slept in at their luxury hotel. Glendalough is famous for its Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin, the hermit priest. After appearing less than thrilled on Monday while viewing Medieval manuscripts

Obama assassination bid fears -
aircraft carriers on standby off
Irish coast during G8 summit

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Belfast Telegraph [Ireland], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/17/2013 11:39:01 PM     Post Reply
It is understood that a contingency plan is in place for the unlikely event that an attempt would be made on the President’s life. The Secret Service also have diplomatic immunity which will allow them to shoot to kill a would-be assassin without fear of prosecution. As part of the “evacuation route” plan, they would be able to spirit the President by chopper to one of the carriers where a jet is on standby to take him back to the United States.

Bill Ayers: Obama Presidency Gets
‘Failing Grade,’ He Should Be
Tried For ‘War Crimes’

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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 2:20:06 PM     Post Reply
Bill Ayers believes President Obama gets a “failing grade” for his presidency, and should be tried for “war crimes,” along with all living presidents who have engaged in acts of “terrorism” abroad. Sitting down for an episode of RealClearPolitics’ “Morning Commute,” Ayers told host Charlie Stone that, on policy, Obama receives a “failing grade” along with the “F-minuses” he’s given previous presidents like George W. Bush and Richard Nixon. “I don’t think he’s let anybody down,” Ayers added, pointing to how during the 2008 presidential campaign then-Senator Obama consistently declared himself to be a “middle-of-the-road, pragmatic politician.”

Obama girls look less than thrilled
by museum trip in Dublin as
the first family visit Ireland
for the G8 summit

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Daily Mail [UK], by Jill Reilly, Louise Boyle    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 6/17/2013 2:43:03 PM     Post Reply
The Obama girls appeared to have perked up on their trip to Dublin as they pulled a series of wacky faces during a performance of Riverdance. Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, had looked less than enthralled earlier on Monday as they toured the historic Book of Kells with their mother at Trinity College in the capital. However the First Lady and her daughters were having a roaring good time as they sat among schoolchildren at Dublin´s Gaiety Theatre, pulling cross-eyed expressions as students surreptitiously snapped them with camera phones. The President, his wife and daughters touched down in Belfast amid

Obama on NSA programs: Americans
"not getting the complete story"

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CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 6/17/2013 11:37:19 PM     Post Reply
Americans outraged by leaked information about two top-secret government surveillance programs are "not getting the complete story," President Obama told Charlie Rose in a PBS interview recorded Sunday for air Monday night - and the intelligence community is working on filling in the holes. One "legitimate critique" of the National Security Agency programs designed to track suspected terrorists by culling U.S. phone records and mining data from the servers of major Internet companies, the president conceded, is that because they´re classified, "the public may not fully" understand them. "That can make the public kind of nervous, right?"


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