Spineless Weasles: Rep. Issa might not have the votes to push forward Holder contempt charge... -
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) might not have the votes in his own committee to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
A number of Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are wary of moving forward with Issa’s proposed measure, putting the powerful chairman in an awkward position as he attempts to build support for the move.
Two of the committee’s 23 Republicans have declined to support the measure at this point, while five other GOP panel members did not respond to repeated requests for comment over the last two weeks.
When compared with the 16 Republicans on the committee who have actively been speaking in favor of the measure, the silence, lack of outspoken support and desire by these eight GOP caucus members to avoid the issue could be a problem for Issa.
With only 16 committee Republicans publicly supporting the resolution — and no Democrats — Issa falls short of the 21 votes he needs to pass it out of the 40-member panel to the House floor.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.” — Gen.George Patton
The Obama Campaign now has an easy to use snitch form for its Truth Team members to fill out in case any non-Obama approved propaganda is found anywhere on TV, radio, in print, or on the Internet.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers. -Aristotle
Memorial Day and Veterans Day each come once a year, but with the amount the troops do for us, every single day should be about honoring them.
Although most of the servicemen in my family lived, I still want to give thanks for them today, to my grandpa who was in WWII who was literally an inch away from dying if his belt buckle didn’t block the deadly shrapnel, to my grandpa who was in Korea, to my great uncle who was in WWII, to my uncle who was in the Navy, and to my great great uncle who died in WWI.
God bless every single one of our troops, past, present, and future, and the families who also sacrifice time with their family members so that their loved ones can go fight for our freedom.
President Barack Obama blew off a crowded theater of supporters to rub elbows with big money donors in northern California.
Obama left a crowd of 1,100 supporters at Fox Theater hanging after overstaying a big-ticket fundraiser, according to New York Times reporter Peter Baker.
The audience was being shown the campaign’s 17-minute promotional film. The movie ended with stirring tones, the lights came up and then … nothing. The stage stood empty for long minutes and no one came out, much less Potus. The crowd grew antsy and began chanting, “Obama, Obama!” Finally a woman took it upon herself to keep the audience busy, shouting, “Fired up,” followed by the crowd responding, “Ready to go.” After a few minutes, that died down. Then a man started chanting, “Four more years,” until that died down too. More minutes drained away with no one on the stage, no one addressing the crowd.
The campaign charged attendees $250 for the Redwood City event, a steep drop from the $35,800 Obama charged a crowd of Silicon Valley executives and celebrities at its preceding fundraiser.
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He did eventually show up and like good little lemmings they fell right in step with the Dear Leader and “hissed” at the very mention of Romney’s name.
Must be good you can treat people like crap but still have them shuffle right along with you.
“As long as I’m president, we will make sure you and your loved ones will receive the benefits you’ve earned and the respect you deserve.” —
Barack Obama again having no choice but to turn his Memorial Day speech into a campaign speech all about him.
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Isn’t this the same guy who proposed raising active-duty and retired military members healthcare fees so high they would be forced to abandon their military provided healthcare provider, Tricare, and move into Obamacare? Yeah, thought so.
Iranian Plot To Assassinate U.S. Officials In Azerbaijan Uncovered… -
In November, the tide of daily cable traffic to the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan brought a chilling message for Ambassador Matthew Bryza, then the top U.S. diplomat to the small Central Asian country. A plot to kill Americans had been uncovered, the message read, and embassy officials were on the target list.
The details, scant at first, became clearer as intelligence agencies from both countries stepped up their probe. The plot had two strands, U.S. officials learned, one involving snipers with silencer-equipped rifles and the other a car bomb, apparently intended to kill embassy employees or members of their families.
Both strands could be traced back to the same place, the officials were told: Azerbaijan’s southern neighbor, Iran.
The threat, many details of which were never made public, appeared to recede after Azerbaijani authorities rounded up nearly two dozen people in waves of arrests early this year. Precisely who ordered the hits, and why, was never conclusively determined. But U.S. and Middle Eastern officials now see the attempts as part of a broader campaign by Iran-linked operatives to kill foreign diplomats in at least seven countries over a span of 13 months.
Afghanistan: Taliban Poison Yet Another Girls’ School, Third Attack In 3 Weeks… -
Once again radicals opposing girls’ education on Sunday poisoned more than three dozen schoolgirls in northern Takhar province, the third incident of its kind over the past two months, officials said.
The victims, students of the Bibi Hajira High School, situated on the 5th road of Taloqan city, the provincial capital, fell sick for unknown reasons, Education Director Abdul Wahab Zafari told Pajhwok Afghan News.
The incident takes place four days after more than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers of the same school were poisoned, in the second attack in as many months, blamed on conservative radicals opposed to education for women and girls in the north, according to police and education officials.
Nearly 43 girls were brought to the Takhar Civil Hospital, Public Health Director Dr. Hafizullah confirmed to Pajhwok.
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But, hey! They put out a book filled with their bad poetry so we know they’re really sensitive caring guys.
“So long as its sons are willing to die for their motherland, so long will it endure to shelter, and bless them and their children. At the hour when a people shall be unwilling to abide this test, they will find that they have no longer a country worth saving.” —
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Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy answer—but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we’re willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Now let’s set the record straight. There’s no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there’s only one guaranteed way you can have peace—and you can have it in the next second—surrender.
Admittedly, there’s a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face—that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand—the ultimatum. And what then—when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we’re retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he’s heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he’d rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us.
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin—just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ‘round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it’s a simple answer after all.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” “There is a point beyond which they must not advance.” And this—this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said, “The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals.” And he said, “There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
” — Ronald Reagan (via communismkills)“One of the consequences of such notions as “entitlements” is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.” — Thomas Sowell (via dudeistlibertarian)
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Anonymous asked: What're your feelings on the Westboro Baptist Church?
You mean other than they’re a bunch of loser assholes? Not much.
Have a great day.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” — President Ronald Reagan (via ohkaywhatever)
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This day is special, but please always remember that everyday should be Memorial Day. NEVER forget ANY soldier. They will always he heroes in the face of God. People who call them anything less are cowards, and anti American.
God bless America.
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