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Home Front: Culture Wars
Fashion Advice at the DIA: 'Makeup Makes You More Attractive'
Klinger is jealous.
A week after women were cleared to serve in combat, Defense Intelligence Agency employees got a different message. "Makeup makes you more attractive." "Don't be a plain Jane." "A sweater with a skirt is better than a sweater with slacks." "No flats." "Paint your nails." "Don't be afraid of color." And, "brunettes have more leeway with vibrant colors than blondes or redheads."

Men and women at DIA were given fashion advice in a presentation prepared by an employee at the agency this week. Susan Strednansky, public affairs officer at DIA, offered the agency's regrets about the briefing, which raised eyebrows among some employees, saying, "I'm not going to deny that it exists, and it was bad. It was inappropriate for sure." She added, "Neither the agency nor the leadership has condoned anything that was in that briefing."

The presentation offered gender-specific advice on how to improve one's success in the workplace through appearance. "It was an informal event that an employee put together, a briefing on How to Dress for Success," Strednansky says. "It's not directive. It is not mandatory. It is just, 'Hey, here are some suggestions.'"

In response to the presentation, DIA director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn sent a letter to employees that was provided to Whispers. In it, he apologized to employees for "the unnecessary and serious distraction" and called the presentation "highly offensive." Flynn added that he hoped the intentions were "pure of heart and intended to help... but even smart people do dumb things sometimes. That said, no one is going to be taken to the wood shed over this. They'll require some counseling (to be sure) on what it means to think before you act."
Posted by: tipper || 02/02/2013 18:14 || Comments || Link || [336106 views] Top|| File under:

#1  not that you'd necessarily wanna be looking attractive - given that most of the men in the third world will be trying to grope you as soon as you get off the airplane.
Posted by: Raider || 02/02/2013 19:29 Comments || Top||

#2  And just wait until some 'makeup-enhanced' female draws an unwanted wolf whistle and files a sexual harrassment suit....
I lived through one Tailhook, and wouldn't wish that witch hunt on anybody......
Posted by: USN,Ret. || 02/02/2013 20:09 Comments || Top||

#3  "prepare your 'uncovered cat meat' disguises"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2013 20:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Scott Brown not running for Senate
Scott Brown will not run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, the former senator told the Herald first today.

Brown’s decision follows yesterday’s announcement by fellow Republican Charlie Baker that he won’t run for the seat either. Baker did urge former Gov. William Weld, who just moved back to Massachusetts, to run if Brown doesn’t.

This leaves Democrats U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch and rival U.S. Rep. Edward Markey as the only two declared candidates for the office.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336111 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's unwilling to claim a faux Cherokee heritage? After all, he does have high cheekbones.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/02/2013 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  If he runs again he's going to have to answer the question, "what makes you think you can win this time when you were rejected by the voters last year?"

There's no good answer to that question. You either lie, or start jabbering inside baseball, or gloss over it. Voters notice.

Smart thing for him to do is to keep the honorific 'Senator' and find something that he loves to do.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/02/2013 13:29 Comments || Top||

#3  He may make a run for governor next year and he'd have a pretty good shot.
As far as the current race, Excretable Eddie is the party's anointed one but he's a horseshit candidate. A lot of the unions are taking a pass on him. I think Lynch is gonna take him in the primary. At least the guy has worked for a living and knows where his district is.
The Republican's are talking the usual suspects. Bill Weld, Charlie Baker, the rumor this morning is that they want Romney's wife to run.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/02/2013 13:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't forget Muffy Healy - talk about a thin 'Pub bench.
Posted by: Raj || 02/02/2013 14:15 Comments || Top||

#5  "what makes you think you can win this time when you were rejected by the voters last year?"

Never stopped the EU from repeating referendums in countries till they got the result they wanted.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2013 14:25 Comments || Top||

#6  It was a politically savvy move. In Massachusetts, Republicans have a much better chance of winning the race for Governor (where a fiscally conservative Governor can be a spending break on the state legislator) than for Senator (where the voters prefer an extra vote for the Democrats). The extra time will distance Brown from previous defeats while also making him look good compared with the next Republican candidate who will do much worse in the election than Brown had done.
Posted by: Odysseus || 02/02/2013 17:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Chelsea Clinton should be moving to Boston within a few weeks and begin talking about public service.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/02/2013 17:39 Comments || Top||


White House Backs Chuck Hagel Nomination
[An Nahar] The White House Friday defended its nominee for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, after his perceived weak performance at a Senate confirmation hearing.

It also denounced Republicans who pressed Hagel hard at Thursday's session. Hagel has been nominated to replace Leon Panetta in President Barack Obama's second term.

Hagel was grilled for hours and often found himself on the defensive as Republicans went after him for his past positions against the Iraq war and sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

"I think Senator Hagel answered the questions appropriately and did a fine job," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

He said he was surprised that Republican senators like John McCain took issue with Hagel over Iraq.

In 2008 "then-Senator Obama had a view on Iraq. It was one of the reasons why he ran for president and ran on that position and won in 2008 against Senator McCain," Carney said.

Carney also said he found it "bizarre" that senators had hardly asked any questions on Afghanistan, scene of an "active war" with 66,000 Americans in uniform.

"Instead, they wanted to re-litigate the past," Carney said.

He added that the White House believes Hagel will ultimately win approval in the Senate, where Republicans hold a blocking minority.
Posted by: Fred || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336094 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OTOH FREE BEACON > RETIRED US GENERALS AND ADMIRALS [lot of 'em] OPPOSE HAGEL NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.

and

* IIRC SAME > CHUCK HAGEL ACCEPTED MONIES FROM IRAN-LINKED COMPANIES.

More anti-Hagel Artics at website.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/02/2013 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  not a deep thinker, is he?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2013 11:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Hagel for Secretary of Defense? That's like Morfin Gaunt for head of Muggle Relations, the Penguin for security guard, or Neron Caesar for Human Rights leader.
Posted by: Korora || 02/02/2013 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Hagel (R-Dipshit) was supposed to give Obama partisan cover as he cuts the military, stabs Israel, and gives the Mullahs some loving
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2013 12:20 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Menendez drained more than 1/3 of bank accounts to pay for past Dominican Republic travel
[DAILYCALLER] A check that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez wrote to his longtime campaign donor Dr. Salomon Melgen on Jan. 4 to cover private jet travel to the Dominican Republic represented more than one-third of his cash-on-hand -- and perhaps as much as 90 percent -- according to an analysis of his most recent U.S. Senate financial disclosure report.

Dan O'Brien, Menendez's chief of staff, told WNBC-TV4 in New York on Tuesday that the senator reimbursed Melgen $58,500 for two trips they took together to the island nation in 2010.

Menendez signed a disclosure statement on May 9, 2012 indicating that he had between $66,003 and $165,000 in three different bank and credit union accounts. His only other asset is a rental property worth between $250,001 and $500,000.
Posted by: Fred || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336097 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks like someone has a serious sex addiction???

I'm going to guess its NOT for the one he usually takes to Washington $100/1000-a-plate functions.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/02/2013 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Appears he's a spender not a saver. What has he been spending it on, and don't tell me $150. whores ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 6:13 Comments || Top||

#3  My first thought was: He's a Donk, whose accounts did he drain?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/02/2013 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  The prostitutes wanted $600 each, he paid $100 each. By accounts, he stiffed each for $500. They are unhappy and talking.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/02/2013 11:29 Comments || Top||


Economy
America's Suicidal Cities
[NATIONALREVIEW] Two page opinion piece using Detroit as the model for all cities in decline, which it isn't. The valid point the author does make is that the cities' regimes keep acting as though the money was still flowing like it did about the time they started being run by Dem machine politicians. Detroit is well on its way to winking out of existence -- but it's the city council that's to blame. But Chicago's got a different set of problems even though they stem from a similar source. Washington D.C.'s problem with the Marion ("The Bitch Set Me Up!") Barry administration made the place a national laughingstock, but the voters gave him another term as soon as he was out of jail and he's still on the city council. New Orleans' problems during Katrina stemmed a lot more from its corrupt and incompetent city administration than from FEMA or G.W.Bush.
Posted by: Fred || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336121 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I used to live in Detroit and have many friends who still do. This is a tragedy.

And is the leading example for where the US is headed as we follow the same policies with the same sort of corrupt government.

Look well, America. You'll be just like this in 5-10 years, if not sooner.

Orion
Posted by: Orion || 02/02/2013 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Again, THE MORE BAD OR WORSE THINGS ARE, THE BETTER FOR ANTI-US LEFTISTS-GLOBALISTS + ANTI-US OWG + NAU, where differentiated regional Nation-States will be "forced" to depend on one another just for simple survival

SNAFU > nearly every day as per the MSM-Net Americans = Amerikans see the Fed surrender steadily + in piecemeal to the future OWG + OWG NAU 2015. CALL ME WEIRD BUT I DON'T SEE MEXICO, CANADA, + GREENLAND, ETC. SURRENDERING AS FAST OR AS DUBIOUS AS WASHINGTON = BAMMER + ADMIN ARE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/02/2013 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Corrupt political machines, unions, and crime can only survive as long as the host [business and industry] continues to breath and thrive. When the host dies, the parasites migrate to government for their sustenance or find a new host elsewhere.

When the government host finally dies, well, then you have a very real problem.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 6:32 Comments || Top||

#4  ... a bold plan to revitalize Belle Isle by having the city sell it for $1 billion to investors who “believe in individual freedom, liberty, and free markets.” The investors would be given freedom to set up an “enterprise zone,” which would have self-governing commonwealth status with the U.S. much as Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands have. The new Belle Isle would have a top rate of 10 percent on income taxes, and no taxes on capital gains, dividends, investments, or estates.

Here's an idea: why don't we make the whole damn country an "enterpreise zone" with business-friendly policies like those described above. Be nice if these folks would stop rent-seeking long enough to at least try to explain the validity of these policies to the low information crowd.
Posted by: AzCat || 02/02/2013 12:30 Comments || Top||

#5  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUM > WHITES TO BECOME MINROITY IN USA IN 30 YEARS | CENSUS: WHITES TO BECOME A MINORITY IN THE UNITED STATES BY 2043 - BUSINESS INSIDER, according to current projections.

Illegal Mexicans, Blacks, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis + Arabs to be the majority soon enuff.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/02/2013 22:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Geraldo Mulls NJ Senate Run
[BREITBART] Because nothing says serious political candidate like a famous mustache and a bizarre history of covering faux Satanic ritual popularity, Geraldo Rivera is prepping for a New Jersey senatorial run, the radio and television host said Thursday. "I mention this only briefly, fasten your seatbelt," he stated. "I am and I've been in touch with some people in the Republican Party in New Jersey. I am truly contemplating running for Senate against Frank Lautenberg or Cory Booker in New Jersey."
Posted by: Fred || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “I am and I’ve been in touch with some people in the Republican Party in New Jersey." Does that mean he is claiming to be a Pub? No way. Compared to Obama? That is really difficult. That's sort of like asking: Do you want cancer or a flesh-eating bacterial disease?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/02/2013 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm thinking that if we give Geraldo plastic surgery and inject him into the leadership of Al Qaeda ... the world's terrorist groups should crumble in 4-5 years :-)
Posted by: Raider || 02/02/2013 19:27 Comments || Top||


Lautenberg calls Menendez controversy 'a terrible tragedy'
[Washington Post] Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) New Jersey colleague has responded to the growing controversy surrounding the senator's ties to a doctor who was recently raided, and he's not exactly doing Menendez any favors.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), in comments reported by the Star-Ledger, left open the possibility that the allegations against Menendez could have merit:
"If there are infractions as they are reported, it's too bad," Lautenberg told reporters.
...
"There a lot that's said and covered, but I for one know Bob as a very capable United States senator, and I'm sorry to see him in this position," Lautenberg said. "But I can't give you anything more. Don't want to. Don't know to."
...
Lautenberg later added he had not spoken to Menendez about the accusations but called them "devastating."
"(He) has built an almost sterling reputation for a lot of years and our hope is that this, what we're hearing, is not as it's presented," Lautenberg said. "I think Bob will survive this with his good work. This is a terrible tragedy. And we're not yet sure what all of the facts are."
Posted by: Fred || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336099 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, Frank. If the Feds are looking at him, chances are they aren't looking at you. So shut up and be happy.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/02/2013 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Tragedy? I think the technical legal term is Statutory Rape if the girls where underage.

I'm waiting for the Democrats claim that 'hey it was consensual! What difference does it make?'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/02/2013 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  It wasn't rape rape.
/Whoopi Goldberg
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/02/2013 0:33 Comments || Top||

#4  'a terrible tragedy'

Translation - we've got a RINO in the governor's office who's unlikely to fill the slot with a proper patronage interim appointment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2013 11:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Where is the outrage from the left?
Underage hookers? Really? In a 3rd world country, most likely victims of human trafficking?

That's reprehensible, even to me.

Not a peep from his peers though.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 02/02/2013 11:32 Comments || Top||


Ethically-challenged Rep. Charles Rangel in campaign debt
[WASHINGTONTIMES] In a case of the mighty having fallen, the campaign of Democratic Rep. Charlie Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Rangel
Congressman-for-Life from Harlem, who became what 20 terms in Congress turns you into ...
, the dean of the New York Congressional delegation and a man who was for decades untouchable in his Harlem district, is $35,000 in debt but has only $5,000 in the bank and has received handouts from other House members.
Sounds like it's time for another "birthday party"...
Mr. Rangel faced his first serious primary challenge in years, spending nearly a half-million dollars to fend off the son of the man he first deposed decades ago.

And ethics charges have worn him down, forcing him to fundraise separately for a legal defense fund. His campaign donated the maximum allowed, $5,000, to the legal fund, disclosures showed Thursday.

Mr. Rangel, who long helped other colleagues raise money, more recently has found himself on the receiving end of charity, as his colleagues in the House donated money to him through their leadership PACs, an act that had never before been necessary.
Posted by: Fred || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336093 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Time to write some checks from that Cayman Islands account Charlie.

You know, your "Retirement Fund". (wink, wink)
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 02/02/2013 11:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Clinton Says World Is Safer Now!
Hillary Clinton steps down from State Dept ... while proclaiming the world is a safer place. Meanwhile ... US stock market pops over 14,000 mark (Dow), everyone piles in with their money, and volatility is at all-time lows.

WELL - I certainly feel like I can breathe easier. How about you?! HAHAHA!!!
Posted by: Raider || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The world is safer ... if you belong to Al Qaeda.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/02/2013 11:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Safer for whom?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/02/2013 14:54 Comments || Top||

#3  How is it for that doctor that found Bin Laden for us? Is his prison pretty safe?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/02/2013 16:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Steyn on Hagel
From TFA:

There are over 300 million Americans, and another 20 million more Undocumented-Americans about to be fast-tracked down the soi-disant “path to citizenship.” Surely, from this vast talent pool, it should be possible to find someone who’s sufficiently interested in running the planet’s biggest military not to present himself on the world stage as a woozy, unfocused stumblebum. In an exquisite touch, responding to reports that Hagel was “ill-prepared,” someone in the White House leaked that he had been thoroughly “coached.” In other words, don’t blame us: We put him through the federally mandated Confirmation Hearing for Dummies course. He doesn’t have to be a competent defense secretary; he just has to play one on TV for a couple of hours. But even that’s too much to ask of an increasingly dysfunctional political system: The Senate disdains to pass a budget, 70 percent of U.S .Treasury debt is bought by the Federal Reserve, month-long negotiations to cut spending turn out in the final deal to increase spending . . . and the president’s choice of defense secretary tells the world he has no idea what our policy on Iran is.

Hagel may know nothing about Iran, but he’s an incisive expert on America.
Posted by: badanov || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336110 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nevertheless, he's going to be confirmed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/02/2013 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm thinking that the Obama brain trust has the idea that they can survive and control an economic collapse especially it they cause it. His cabinet seems to consist of fodder for the underside of the bus who think they'll be taken care of no matter what happens. The problem the controllers and the fooder is that they are working from a theory that has never worked. The revolution eats its own.
Posted by: Vortigern Hupoluse1541 || 02/02/2013 4:42 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: junkiron || 02/02/2013 4:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Intelligence is NOT a requirement for Obama administration positions. All the candidate must do is carry out the dictates of Donilon, Garrett, and the [I am not a king] Champ.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 6:19 Comments || Top||

#5  why even have a hearing if the knucklehead nominated can bomb the hearing and still be confirmed?
Posted by: airandee || 02/02/2013 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Secretary of Defense for Dummies, I love it.

But it must not have had many pictures.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 02/02/2013 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  why even have a hearing if the knucklehead nominated can bomb the hearing and still be confirmed?

Because "I am not a King" Obama has to call in his chips to get Dem senators to make absolute fools of themselves in public. At some point he is going to run out of chips and bring down his whole political structure (the party, the MSM, Hollywood) with him.

Hopefully the United States of America will not callapse along with him.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/02/2013 11:43 Comments || Top||

#8  They need people who make Champ look bright by comparison.

Even more embarassing, he's a f&$king Republican. How did that happen?
Posted by: Titus Ulans4144 || 02/02/2013 13:14 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
White House steps away from Menendez, cites cooties.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336096 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cooties or Cuties???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/02/2013 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I head Reid backs the slimy pedophile.

So I guess its true what that confidential source in the white house says about him....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/02/2013 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, he's never denied it...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/02/2013 0:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Senator Menendez

WASHINGTON — Federal immigration agents were prepared to arrest an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender days before the November elections but were ordered by Washington to hold off after officials warned of “significant interest” from Congress and news organizations because the suspect was a volunteer intern for Sen. Robert Menendez, according to internal agency documents provided to Congress.

The Homeland Security Department said last month, when The Associated Press first disclosed the delayed arrest of Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, that AP’s report was “categorically false.”

Sanchez, 18, was an immigrant from Peru who entered the country on a now-expired visitor visa. He eventually was arrested at his home in New Jersey on Dec. 6. He has since been released from an immigration jail and is facing deportation. Sanchez has declined to speak to the AP.

After the AP story, which cited an unnamed U.S. official involved in the case, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and six other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the Obama administration for details about the incident.


In other news: Still no word from Vera Baker who headed off to Fort de France, Martinique to start the site CapeCaribbean.com, which is self-described as “a strategic mix of marketing based services,” with Marc Merlini – whose name Baker would take on when she was listed as “Vera Baker-Merlini” on Senator Burris’ staff.

Perhaps Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta and Vera Baker have partnered to assist fund raising with the 2016 presidential campaign.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Judicial Watch

Did WH attempt to cover up the Senator Menendez - Luis Zavaleta scandal with EO ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 8:34 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder how much this guy has been blackmailed.
Posted by: gorb || 02/02/2013 9:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Tip for Luis Zavaleta; avoid Fort Marcy Park when in the D.C. area.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 9:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Why does House Majority Leader Reid always end up around pedophiles? I sense smoke.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/02/2013 10:06 Comments || Top||

#9  ..cause they're easier to blackmail? Not big enough of a special interest group to exploit, so they're more expendable if you have call your cards in.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2013 10:34 Comments || Top||

#10  "Did WH attempt to cover up the Senator Menendez - Luis Zavaleta scandal with EO?"

Of course.
Posted by: Barbara || 02/02/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#11  We'll miss you down in the gym Rob.

See ya, Tony
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2013 11:58 Comments || Top||

#12  No wait, it's the Senate Majority Leader Reid who is constantly, constantly dealing with pedophiles.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/02/2013 15:48 Comments || Top||



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  Syria Suicide Attack on Regime Kills 53
Fri 2013-02-01
  Binori Mosque cleric among 10 killed in Karachi
Thu 2013-01-31
  Boko Haram 'commander' declares ceasefire
Wed 2013-01-30
  Mali and Niger forces retake Ansongo
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  Sahel jihadist groups splinter
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