Archive for March, 2011
Obama’s secret order to support Libyan rebels.
Libyan rebels
This story broke yesterday afternoon and it appears to be BIG…although the White House is denying it (of course). Several government officials let it slip that Obama had signed an order at least 2-3 weeks ago to “support” the anti-Gaddafi rebels. Wasn’t that before we “publicly” entered into the kinetic-military-action?
( Reuters ) Obama signed the order, known as a presidential “finding”, within the last two or three weeks, according to government sources familiar with the matter.
Such findings are a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency. This is a necessary legal step before such action can take place but does not mean that it will.
As is common practice for this and all administrations, I am not going to comment on intelligence matters,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. “I will reiterate what the president said yesterday — no decision has been made about providing arms to the opposition or to any group in Libya.”
The CIA declined comment.
News that Obama had given the authorization surfaced as the President and other U.S. and allied officials spoke openly about the possibility of sending arms supplies to Gaddafi’s opponents, who are fighting better-equipped government forces.
The United States is part of a coalition, with NATO members and some Arab states, which is conducting air strikes on Libyan government forces under a U.N. mandate aimed at protecting civilians opposing Gaddafi.
Interviews by U.S. networks on Tuesday, Obama said the objective was for Gaddafi to “ultimately step down” from power. He spoke of applying “steady pressure, not only militarily but also through these other means” to force Gaddafi out.
Obama said the U.S. had not ruled out providing military hardware to rebels. “It’s fair to say that if we wanted to get weapons into Libya, we probably could. We’re looking at all our options at this point,” he told ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer.
In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted to reporters that no decision had yet been taken.
U.S. officials monitoring events in Libya say neither Gaddafi’s forces nor the rebels, who have asked the West for heavy weapons, now appear able to make decisive gains.
While U.S. and allied airstrikes have seriously damaged Gaddafi’s military forces and disrupted his chain of command, officials say, rebel forces remain disorganized and unable to take full advantage of western military support.
Hmmm…who are these rebels?
I hope we’re not giving weapons to Al-Qaeda.
Bill Ayers gets schooled
This is awesome. This lady knows her stuff and she came fully prepared. Bill Ayers didn’t know what hit him.
Love it!
Thursday Open Thread: March 31st, 2011
Love it!
What’s on your minds this Thursday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
See Atlas Shrugged on April 15th…and petition to have it play near you if your city is not on the theater list
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/theaters
Atlas Shrugged Part One opens on April 15th and is playing here in Chicago. I hope everyone reading this clicks on the link above to see if a theater nearby is showing this film.
I have for all intents and purposes stopped seeing movies in theaters. I just don’t want to help fund Hollywood, and with Netflix, Hulu, and other sources of online content I can eventually see every movie that comes out…even if it takes a while.
But I am going to see Atlas Shrugged opening day.
I think it will be an event to remember, like the first Tax Day Tea Party here in Chicago.
I have a Atlas Shrugged tee shirt I am going to wear and hope to have the book reread before the 15th.
Please support this film. It was independently produced and financed. It is apparently incredibly faithful to the book.
And its message could not possibly be more important or timely.
When are people going to start organized complaining about Muslim holidays and activities?
Here is another front on the ongoing Leftist war on Christianity…this time it’s lunatics insisting the word “Easter” be removed from an Easter egg hunt in Ohio.
A few things need to start happening with this garbage.
First, whenever a community goes after a Christian tradition like this, Christians nationwide need to start inundating whoever is behind this with nonstop negative attention that guarantees their defeat in the next set of elections…if not their being run out of town on a rail.
Next, whenever Muslim holidays are celebrated, they need to be protested and complained about and businesses like Best Buy that go out of their way to promote them need to hear from the public on the appropriateness of their behavior.
Christians are too silent of a majority in this country…much to their detriment.
Constantly, Christians need to look at what the Left does and use their tactics against them to stop the erosion of our holiday traditions…since this erosion allows the Left to replace these Christian celebrations with Muslim ones (as Best Buy seemingly wants to do).
This is how Islam operates…and it’s part of the Global Caliphate’s patient long term plan to subjugate the West.
Erode Christianity’s cultural core in the West…then fill the subsequent void with what the Left thinks will damage America and bring the country to third world level so Islam can take real root here.
An Easter egg hunt is sometimes more than an Easter egg hunt…it’s another line in the green plastic grass we just can’t allow the Left to cross.
PETA wants the Bible rewritten so that animals have more respect.
PETA protest
I really think that this world has gone mad. First, the book of God was rewritten to be gender neutral (using the word “people” instead of the more traditional word “men”) and now….PETA has decided that it’s time to show the animals some respect. So…if the Bible makes reference to a cow or a pig then they want the word “he” or “she” used instead of “it”.
(Gothamist) — After they heard that the latest translation of the New International Version of the Bible will now use gender- inclusive language such as “he or she” instead of just “he”, PETA saw an opportunity to change one other thing.
The organization has petitioned the Committee on Bible Translation to suggest that its next translation remove”speciesist” language, by referring to animals as “he or she” instead of “it.” “When the Bible moves toward inclusively in one area . . . it wasn’t much of a stretch to suggest they move toward inclusively in this area. Language matters. Calling an animal ‘it’ denies them something. They are beloved by God. They glorify God,” Bruce Friedrich, PETA’s vice president for policy, told CNN.
I have no problem showing animals respect…..I am a big animal lover… but this is crazy. It was crazy to rewrite the Bible to appease the feminist groups and it’s crazy to rewrite it to appease PETA. I advise you to go out and buy several copies of the original Bible because they are going to be collectors items soon.
Weasel Zippers makes a good point…
How many overwhelmingly leftist PETA members actually read the Bible?
White House turns it’s back on Fox Sunday
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Chris Wallace is mad…..and he has a right to be. I think he is one of the most “fair and balanced” hosts around but the White House refused to allow anyone from the administration to sit down with Mr. Wallace and talk about Libya. Scaredy cats.
What a bunch of idiots.
Wednesday Open Thread: March 30th, 2011
What’s on your minds this Wednesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Question: how do we get ALL states to stop collecting public employee union dues?
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisconsin-stops-withholding-unions-dues.html
It should not be a government duty to collect dues for the unions.
The unions use their dues to keep Democrats in power, so Democrats can keep dues flowing to the unions from government coffers.
This madness needs to stop.
It should be illegal for city, county, state, and federal government agencies to take dues out of employee paychecks and send them to the unions.
Let the unions collect their own dues.
If the unions are so wonderful, employees will fall over each other in the rush to keep funding their unions.
No more government collection of union dues in Wisconsin means there is precedent to make this happen in your state too.
How do we make this happen?
Ideas?
“Ivy League” teen facing charges for assaulting mom
I ran across this story in The Blaze. I bet this girl has a hard time keeping friends.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in southwest Florida say a 17-year-old girl pointed a gun at her mother, pistol-whipped her and forced her to drive to a dealership to buy her a used car.
The sheriff’s office in Lee County said Monday that the teen has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, among other counts, and was being held at a juvenile detention center. The Associated Press doesn’t identify minors charged with juvenile crimes.
According to officials, the mother said she didn’t want to press charges because her daughter had been accepted to several Ivy League schools.
Authorities said they decided to arrest the teenager after learning that the gun had been stolen last year. The teen was not charged in that crime.
Hmmmm….I bet the mom didn’t want to press charges because she’s scared of her little monster and doesn’t want those “Ivy League” schools to revoke her acceptance.
The mom wants this brat GONE.
