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What Do The Politicians Who Claimed Bombing Targeted Colorado NAACP Branch Say Now?
[DAILYCALLER] None of the politicians who asserted that last month's bombing in Colorado Springs was targeted at the city's NAACP branch are now willing to admit that they were wrong.

The Daily Caller reached out to Maryland U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, Georgia U.S. Rep. John Lewis, and Texas U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee upon Friday's news that the man who set off a small bomb at the building which housed Colorado Springs' NAACP branch on Jan. 6 -- 44-year-old Thaddeus Murphy -- actually targeted his former accountant, not the NAACP.

Only Cardin's office responded to the request for comment.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 12:18 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whoops.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/22/2015 12:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Where's the Emily Litella graphic when you need it?
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/22/2015 12:38 Comments || Top||

#3  That you are a racist for questioning their credibility.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/22/2015 13:00 Comments || Top||

#4  that conglomerate of stupid won't say a peep
Posted by: Frank G || 02/22/2015 13:21 Comments || Top||

#5  The memory hole just isn't what it used to be.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/22/2015 13:59 Comments || Top||

#6  The memory hole is getting clogged faster than a double bacon cheeseburger being directly feed into an artery.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2015 18:48 Comments || Top||

#7  thankyouverymuch
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/22/2015 19:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
NY Times editorial board urges Clinton to ban foundation's foreign donations
[CNN] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
Editorial Board called on Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Clay ...
to ban all foreign donations to her family's charity in a editorial published Friday.

The call comes after a string of reports noting that the Clinton Foundation had begun to accept foreign donations after banning them for the four years Clinton served as secretary of state. The foundation has since defended donations from countries like Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the United Arab Emirates and Oman as philanthropy, not influence peddling, but Democrats and Republicans have questioned the practice.

"All of which underlines the need for Hillary Rodham Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Charles Evans Hughes ...
, in her all but certified role as a Democratic presidential candidate, to reinstate the foundation's ban against foreign contributors, who might have matters of concern to bring before a future Clinton administration," the editorial board wrote. "This was a restriction Mrs. Clinton worked out with the B.O. regime to allay concerns of potential conflict of interest when she became secretary of state in 2009."
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 12:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  they'll just find another front to accept it. Remember Buddhist Nuns
Posted by: Frank G || 02/22/2015 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Recall that the Hildebeest did her college thesis on his writings and Obama writes about him in his books.

Anyone out there think that this stuff isn't happening today in the U.S.? All eight rules are currently in play.

How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky:

“There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.”

1) Healthcare– Control healthcare and you control the people

2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

4) Gun Control– Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.

5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)

6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.

7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.

8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

Does any of this sound like what is happening to the United States?

Alinsky merely simplified Vladimir Lenin's original scheme for world conquest by communism, under Russian rule. Stalin described his converts as"Useful Idiots." The Useful Idiots have destroyed every nation in which they have seized power and control. It is presently happening at an alarming rate in the U.S.

If people can read this and still say everything is just fine…they are “useful idiots”.

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2015 14:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Around about the time the NYTs bans foreign investors.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2015 20:24 Comments || Top||


Gov. Walker says he doesn't know if Obama loves his country
[SG.NEWS.YAHOO] Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a leading Republican contender for the White House in 2016, said Saturday he doesn't know whether President Barack Obama
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
loves his country.

"You should ask the president what he thinks about America," Walker told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named while in Washington for a weekend meeting of the National Governors Association. "I've never asked him so I don't know."

Earlier in the week, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said during a dinner speech, with Walker in attendance, "I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America."
The name of a spade is "spade."
Democrats have assailed Giuliani for questioning Obama's love of country and urged the potential field of Republican presidential candidates to rebuke Giuliani for his comments.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, another possible 2016 candidate, said he didn't think it helps to question the president's patriotism or motives. Giuliani, Pence said, is "a great American" who is "understandably frustrated with a president who lectures us on the Crusades, but seems incapable of calling radical Islamic violence by name."
I agree with Gov. Pence. Re-hashing the patently obvious is really of little help.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The perfect answer.

Gov. Walker is looking more Presidential every day.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/22/2015 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  What about the Free Lunch Army?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/22/2015 2:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Start naming and shaming the DNC Operatives "Journalists" trying to do "gotcha" attacks
Posted by: Frank G || 02/22/2015 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  You referring to "God Damn America" Rev Wright's acolyte? Sat in the pews how many years drinking that up? Seven years late picking up that. Yep, I know the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine memory holed that as quickly as possible. Got to hide it from the kids as it might actually tell you something about the cretin.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2015 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Kenya?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2015 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  The media and Dems will tilt any scandal, loose lip comment, policy ambiguity toward Walker. He will be destroyed with a thousand cuts of innuendo until he is associated with stupidity, gaffs and ineptness. Look for a Saturday Night Live lampoons of him and nightly Jimmy Fallon jokes toward him.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/22/2015 9:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Walker is smart, he didn't get dragged into a gotcha comment by lefty reporter.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Fundamentally Transform implicitly means Does Not Like. He campaigned on Change. But maybe that was all sales pitch, perhaps somebody whose job it is to ask questions and write smartly should ask him.

I'd suspect though that in general he doesn't like anyone, only surrounding himself with people he can at least get along with. Second, I think he is very uncomfortable with his social standing, he stinks of new money and unearned privilage.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/22/2015 13:37 Comments || Top||

#9  While you're asking him what he thinks of America, ask him if he is a Muslim, yes or no. (There's always taqiyya, but seeing how much he dances around the question would be interesting.)
Posted by: KBK || 02/22/2015 17:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Walker really has the wits for it...
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2015 18:18 Comments || Top||


BUSTED: We Have Axelrod's Father's Communist Party Membership #ObamaLovesAmerica
Gotnews.com has exclusively discovered David Axelrod's father's Communist Party membership.

David Axelrod's book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, details his very close relationship with his father, Joseph.

He repeatedly told Charlie Rose that his father believed in the American dream."
"Which dream is that?"
"The American Dream."
"Doesn't sound like the 'American Dream' the rest of us grew up with."
"It's a different one. It's still American. Kind of."
It's got to be around here somewhere. Please someone, help me find 'the common thread.'
It's prob'ly stored next to the nano-violin.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some dreams turn out to be nightmares.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/22/2015 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Axelrod’s father killed himself in 1974 when Axelrod was but 19.

Did his father have a conflict between the "American Dream" and membership in the Communist Party? Couldn't reconcile the failed concept and the millions of deaths? Guilt?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 10:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ....no longer useful to the party ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2015 11:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Besoeker, that is more probable.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Did he fall or was he pushed.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 11:58 Comments || Top||


Legal expert says U.S. Sen Tammy Baldwin is in full damage control
[Watchdog.org] On Thursday, the Republican Party of Wisconsin filed an ethics complaint asking the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Baldwin's firing last month of Marquette Baylor, who headed up the senator's Milwaukee office.

Baylor was let go after investigative reports broke in early January about the Tomah VA medical center's pain-killer prescribing practices, now alleged to have led to the deaths of three veterans.

Baldwin's office, according to reports, did nothing with an inspector general's report last year detailing the concerns, and refused to act when a whistleblower reportedly begged Baldwin's office to do something.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15048 || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yup, she's a Democrat.
Posted by: tipover || 02/22/2015 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Sometimes the folks in Wisconsin elect a superb politician.

Sometimes they don't.

This nitwit is part of the latter. (Having met her and spoken to her on occasion for work items, I can say with certainty that she TRULY is)
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/22/2015 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm going the usually reliable 'single source' at #2. Moonbattery it is.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2015 8:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Carter Selects Fanning as First Openly Gay Pentagon Chief of Staff
[MILITARY] New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has chosen former acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning to become his chief of staff and the first openly gay man to hold the post.
Ohfergawdsake.
Fanning, currently the Air Force undersecretary, was a key member of the transition team along with Army Maj. Gen. Ron Davis that guided Carter through his Senate confirmation hearings to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
Congratulations Herr Fanning, it's a wonderful party.
As chief of staff, Fanning will have major sway over Carter's schedule and access to his office. Davis was expected to become military adviser to Carter.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 12:03 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once again the best qualified take a back seat to the best connected.
Wait,...WHAT!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/22/2015 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Willingness to take it up the behind being more important in the Obama regime than competence.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/22/2015 15:59 Comments || Top||

#3  All part of the plan to cause traditional military personnel to find something else to do, so the 'one world government' people don't have to worry about them anymore.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/22/2015 16:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Not fabulous...
Posted by: Raj || 02/22/2015 17:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Replaced by a transgender next year
Posted by: Frank G || 02/22/2015 17:47 Comments || Top||

#6  What, somebody from the Navy too obvious a joke.

Ashton Carter...didn't he star in that movie Butterfly Effect?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/22/2015 17:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Carter didn't seem particularly upset when old Slow Joe put the moves on his wife either. Hmmmm.

Ernst Rohm could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/22/2015 17:59 Comments || Top||


Government
Champ to seek emergency order restarting immigration programs
[The Hill] The Champ regime will seek an emergency court order to move forward with President Chanp's executive action on immigration.

Officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to seek what is known as an emergency stay that would essentially undo a Texas-based federal judge's injunction from earlier this week. If the stay is granted, the government could restart a pair of executive programs that will shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said DOJ will file for the stay by "Monday at the latest."

The emergency stay had been sought by immigrant rights advocates, who want to get the programs up and running as soon as possible while the appeals process plays out.
Ok, so a Federal Judge's ruling only applies if it benefits the regime. Alright, I think I understand.
No, this is just SOP for any appeal. You ask for a stay of the ruling in question. Very likely the judge will deny that, and then the appeals court will deny, because leaving the ruling in place during the appeal preserves the status quo. Staying the ruling would allow the immigration programs to go ahead rendering the original ruling moot. I don't think that will happen because courts are reluctant to create that situation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's the "emergency" urgency here?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/22/2015 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  AH, the emergency is the clock ticking down on Obastard and the regime. They haven't yet put into place the dictatorship they crave.

I wonder what will happen if Barry refuses to step down? Who will lead the posse to arrest him?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/22/2015 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  How about an emergency bench warrant for not adhering the initial federal ruling to stop?
Posted by: Airandee || 02/22/2015 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The judge should issue a bench warrant for the president's arrest for treason.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/22/2015 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  He lost the House in 2010. He lost the Senate in 2014. The majority of the people have consistently been against amnesty over the years. How can this arrogant, narcissistic, sociopath believe that he is so much smarter than everyone else. The guy ought to be serving time in jail along with his buddy Holder.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/22/2015 11:00 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm convinced he's on the other side.

I've also come to the conclusion that he is a Moslem, in outlook if not in five times a day head bonking.
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2015 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7 
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#8  arrogant, narcissistic, sociopath

JQC, you answered your own question.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/22/2015 12:33 Comments || Top||

#9  arrogant, narcissistic, sociopath

Far too charitable. Also brings into question the distant possibility of medical rehabilitation or cure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2015 12:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Die Lösung The Solution

Nach dem Aufstand des 17. Juni
Ließ der Sekretär des Schriftstellerverbands
In der Stalinallee Flugblätter verteilen
Auf denen zu lesen war, daß das Volk
Das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt habe
Und es nur durch verdoppelte Arbeit
zurückerobern könne. Wäre es da
Nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung
Löste das Volk auf und
Wählte ein anderes?[4]


After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

Bertolt Brecht

Obama's Near final solution to the problem of America.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/22/2015 13:31 Comments || Top||

#11  At last check, the Bammer + Legal Team were prepping to take the issue to the USSC as the Bammer's argument for proceeding wid executive action/privelege is based on its long-standing Constitutionality + Separation of Powers.

IMO ITS WHY HE OR HIS ADMIN IS NOT AFRAID OF ANY GO-DEM EFFORT TO BLOCK OR OBTRUCT HIM. ONLY THE US SUPREME COURT, OR SUCCESSFUL IMPEACHMENT + REMOVAL, CAN STOP HIM.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/22/2015 19:37 Comments || Top||



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  Hotel staffers arrested after deadly bombing
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