As you all know, I despise the shallowness of the media.
Politically speaking, it disgusts me that their major focus is on politics per se - the pursuit of office - rather than upon who these people seeking office are and what - if anything - each stands for.
Do I have any Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters lurking out there... reading this right now? If so... ok... here's what I'd like you to do: Go find a Romney supporter... sucker punch him or her... and then the two of you can (hopefully) beat each other to death!
Geezus... what is WRONG with people? Clinton? You know all about her! We all do! She's a despicable excuse for a human being! She proved herself to be an absolute incompetent as Secretary of State! She has no morals, no ethical compass, not one visible positive trait...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
And on the other side there are these stories focusing on the viability of another Romney candidacy...
Again... what is WRONG with people?
Out of a population of what... 322,000,000 and change... what percentage of the idiotcracy are simply gluttons for punishment?!
America is so... so... so... screwed.
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http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/dana-walden.asp?cycle=08
* CLICK THE LINK.
* THIS IS THE WOMAN RUNNING FOX NEWS.
Ms. Dana Walden has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Television Group at Fox Networks Group, Inc., since July 2014. Ms. Walden is responsible for all facets of the FOX broadcast network, including programming, digital, marketing and other functions. She has been a Co-President and Co-Chairman of Twentieth Century Fox Television Limited since July 2007.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Well. This certainly explains a lot.
No left wing media bias, right?
Kinda like...no IRS or Benghazi scandal/conspiracy.
M'kay...
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/388749/study-one-ten-adults-us-not-proficient-english-andrew-johnson
The number of working-age adults in the United States with limited proficiency in English has more than doubled since 1980, according to a new Brookings Institution study.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The Wall Street Journal reports that the rise comes out to nearly 1 in 10 adults who lack sufficient English skills, two and a half times more than three decades ago. Two-thirds of those lacking proficiency are Spanish speakers.
* AND JUST AS YOUR AVERAGE ENGLISH SPEAKER ISN'T NECESSARILY AN "A" STUDENT IN ENGLISH CLASSES, SO TOO DOES THIS APPLY TO SPANISH SPEAKERS. (DOESN'T NECESSARITY MEAN THEY'RE "A" STUDENTS IN SPANISH - THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE!)
In large cities, the numbers are even higher. For example, in Los Angeles and Miami, the Journal reports almost 25% of adults lack proficient English.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
The study also finds that cities such as Indianapolis have witnessed a near 100% increase in limited-English speakers since 2000.
* THEY'RE TAKING THIS COUNTRY APART BRICK BY BRICK, FOLKS... CONNECT THE FRIGGIN' DOTS...
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://time.com/3421801/secret-service-white-house-security-breach/
* AND THIS IS TIME MAGAZINE!
If you want to know what is wrong with the Secret Service, take a look at the statement the agency issued after a deranged intruder managed to enter the White House for the first time since the Secret Service closed off public access to the mansion during World War II.
According to the Secret Service, the Uniformed Division officers who did nothing to apprehend 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez after he hopped over the White House fence “showed tremendous restraint.”
The agency is so arrogant that it thinks it can make such an obviously ridiculous statement and the public will buy it because we are fools.
But the Secret Service is not fooling the FBI. Senior FBI officials are horrified by the Secret Service’s handling of the matter and are laughing at its effort to cover up its own failure...
The FBI’s reaction is well founded. In protecting the White House, the Secret Service Uniformed Division officers and the Uniformed Division’s Emergency Response Team, armed with P90 submachine guns, are supposed to be the first line of defense. But they were either asleep or just not paying attention when Gonzales sprinted across the lawn. They thus failed to unleash the agency’s Belgian Malinois dogs, which are cross-trained to sniff out explosives and to attack an intruder and take him or her down.
Having failed to unleash the dogs in time, the officers should have taken out the intruder with a bullet. When it comes to protecting the president, officers and agents must make split-second decisions to avoid an assassination. Courts have given the Secret Service much wider latitude than other law enforcement agencies in use of deadly force.
In Gonzalez’ case, no one knew if he was concealing a bomb or weapons of mass destruction. If it turned out he had them, it would have been too late to kill him once he was in the White House. While President Obama had just left the White House, he might have decided to return. Gonzalez’s act of racing into the White House by definition meant that he was a threat to the president. The Secret Service was derelict in its duty to protect the president by failing to eliminate that threat.
While all of this may seem obvious, apparently it is not to Obama, who has defended the Secret Service and its leaders even as it let Michaele and Tareq Salahi and a third intruder, Carlos Allen, into a White House state dinner even though they were not on the guest list.
The president continued to defend the agency even as 11 agents had to be sent home from Colombia for hiring prostitutes when Obama was about to visit (a story which I broke).
Yet these scandals are the tip of the iceberg.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
As reported in my book The First Family Detail, while agents are brave and dedicated, Secret Service management perpetuates a culture that condones laxness and cutting corners. Under pressure from White House political staffs or presidential campaign staffs, Secret Service management tells agents to let people into events without magnetometer or metal detector screening. Assassins concealing grenades or other weapons could theoretically enter an event and easily assassinate the president or a presidential candidate. When it comes to firearms requalification and physical fitness, the Secret Service either doesn’t allow agents time to fulfill the requirements or asks agents to fill out their own test scores.
All this has led to poor morale and a high turnover rate.
Tired agents and officers are forced to work long overtime hours, contributing to the sort of inattention that took place when Gonzalez scaled the White House fence. The Secret Service has refused to update its sensors around the White House with the latest technologically advanced devices for detecting intrusions and weapons of mass destruction. Its arrogance extended to leaving the doors to the White House unlocked on the presumption that its personnel could handle any threat.
* AND YET...
No congressional hearings or internal reviews are going to fix the agency.
Only an outside director with a fresh perspective — comparable to Robert S. Mueller III when he took over as FBI director — would be capable of reforming Secret Service management, shaking up the agency, and changing the culture that fosters corner cutting and punishes agents who question it. But given Obama’s lack of judgment, that is not going to happen.
An assassination nullifies American democracy. But Obama will continue to insist that he has confidence in the Secret Service despite the risk to his own life and the lives of his family members, who would be prime targets of an attack by ISIS terrorists on the vulnerable White House.
“We don’t have enough people or the equipment to do protection the way they advertise they do,” a veteran current agent (who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fear of losing his job) says. “And how we have not had an incident up to this point is truly amazing — a miracle.”
* OR... SATAN PROTECTING "YOU KNOW WHO."
(*SHRUG*)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/us/republicans-corporate-donors-governors.html?_r=0
[An] A-to-Z of America’s most prominent companies, from Aetna to Walmart, had poured millions of dollars into the campaigns of Republican governors since 2008.
* AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS...?
Last year, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee allowed corporate donors to make their cases on how to carry out the Affordable Care Act; discuss hydraulic fracturing, an oil-and-gas exploration method regulated at the state level; and hash over state budgets just as coffers began to loosen.
* OK. SOUNDS LIKE POLITICS AS USUAL. NOT QUITE GETTING THE POINT OF THE "EXPOSE" OR EVEN WHY IT'S BEING TREATED AS "BREAKING NEWS."
In a tit for tat, the Republican association unearthed documents from the Democratic Governors Association that also name corporate donors and the benefits: meetings with Democratic governors, “preferred seating” at policy discussions, and lavish receptions. But those documents do not detail contribution levels, nor do they reveal the corporate members of the Democratic association’s own secretive 501(c)(4), the Center for Innovative Policy.
* SO... SHOULD NYT REPORTERS BE DILIGENTLY INVESTIGATING... WORKING TO UNCOVER AND PUBLICIZE THE NUMBERS?
* FOLKS... YOU HAVE THE LINK. READ THE FULL ARTICLE. IT'S NOTHING BUT THE NYT SERVING AS ANY UNPAID LOBBYIST FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY - AS USUAL.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/09/23/Our-Intelligence-Director-Dismissed-ISIS-Why-Does-He-Still-Have-Job
It is baffling how James Clapper still has a job.
* NOT IT'S NOT. (IT'S INSANE... BUT CERTAINLY NOT BAFFLING.)
* BTW... HAVE YOU MET VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN...???
(*SNORT*)
In an interview with The Washington Post’s David Ignatius on Wednesday, the Director of National Intelligence admitted that he had completely underestimated ISIS. He didn't anticipate how fast the Iraqi Army would fall apart, nor the “will to fight” among Islamic State troops. “I didn’t,” he somewhat lamely added, “see that.”
* THIS IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION YOU UNDERSTAND - RIGHT? THINK... "ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS" - ONLY... VERY BAD TOYS.
By now, most Americans realize ISIS caught the intelligence community by surprise.
* OBAMA'S INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
To be fair, it’s easy to nitpick the intelligence community and demand it to be omniscient. It is not. But for a nation that spends as much as the US on intelligence (over $50 billion a year, according to The Washington Post), we seem to have somehow missed the two biggest geopolitical events of the Obama presidency.
* THE OTHER BEING RUSSIA AND THE UKRAINE.
More damningly, Clapper’s admission comes on the heels of several instances of active malfeasance by the CIA, including its spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee...
* YA MEAN THAT'S... er... FROWNED UPON?
That followed Clapper lying under oath the previous year, when he told Sen. Ron Wyden that the intelligence community was definitely not collecting “any kind of data at all” on the American public.
* YA MEAN... THAT'S A NO-NO AS WELL...?!?!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
So why haven't Clapper and Brennan been fired? Well, essentially for two reasons: First, getting the Senate to confirm another senior intelligence official would be hell. Congress is in a surly mood on intelligence issues. It’s in a surly mood on most issues, frankly, but especially with the spies. The accumulating presumption of the intelligence community’s spying on both the demos and their representatives has embarrassed them.
The second reason Brennan and Clapper still have jobs is that Obama likes them.
Brennan in particular was the President's personal counterterrorism advisor before Brennan became CIA director and had a direct role in shaping the administration's conception of the War on Terror as a counterterrorism problem.
It has been well reported by now that drone strikes have gone up under Obama; that Obama spends his weekly counterterrorism hour leafing through binders of aspiring targets to select the ones for culling; that Obama is whacking targets all over Pakistan and the Middle East, reportedly with great daring.
* IN OTHER WORDS, OBAMA BELIEVES...
Global counterterrorism – unmanned robots and ninjas killing jihadis, sans warning, sans risk, based on Obama's personal Book of the Dead – is a crisp distillation of the Obama Weltanschauung. It was bloodless, and certainly not “stupid s***,” and intended to take the place of George Bush’s Long War.
* OBAMA IS FLATTERED BY BRENNAN'S OBSEQUIENCE.
Brennan and Clapper brought the President “counterterrorism,” and counterterrorism brought us Osama bin Laden. But it also brought us the collapse of Iraq and the unshackling of Russia from any basic strategic constraint. It brought us a host of unexpected and ill-reacted geopolitical upheavals, from the Iranian pro-democracy riots in 2009 to the Arab Spring to the implosion of Syria, ignored until it was a disaster, further ignored until it was a crisis. Redefining the world as a counterterrorism matrix blinded us to the macro shifts; it overlaid a falsely individual heuristic of victory – is X dead? – onto a world that shifts en masse. And despite all the dead bodies in Pakistan, ISIS was one such masse.
So in one sense Clapper and Brennan should not be fired. They’ve given us nothing the President did not want, and have lost none of his confidence.
But by now... they should have lost some of ours.
* LONG AGO!
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