What’s interesting in the news today?
First up today, a Benghazi update. Looks like gun running is the reason for the attacks after all, and what they’ve been trying to hide all along. Breitbart and DC’s WMAL provide the details.
Via WeaselZippers “Atty For Benghazi Whistleblower: 400 U.S. Surface-To-Air Missiles Were Stolen In Benghazi”
“Is this part of the threat that closed the embassies, the fear that our own weapons would be used against us? Joe Di Genova, who was a federal prosecutor, also notes that the President mentioned the sealed indictment to make it appear as though he was doing something, but violated a court order to reveal the sealed indictment.”
“On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.’s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were “diverted to Libya” and ended up being stolen and falling into “the hands of some very ugly people.”
The interview with the attorney is interesting to say the least.
Now what role do you suppose these weapons played in the recent warnings?
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The N.C. Gov. has signed an extensive new Voter ID law.
From TheWaPo “North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on Monday signed into law one of the nation’s most wide-ranging Voter ID laws.
The move is likely to touch off a major court battle over voting rights, and the Justice Department is weighing a challenge to the new law, which is the first to pass since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act. “
“The measure requires voters to present government-issued photo identification at the polls and shortens the early voting period from 17 to 10 days. It will also end pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-old voters who will be 18 on Election Day and eliminates same-day voter registration.
Democrats and minority groups have been fighting against the changes, arguing that they represent an effort to suppress the minority vote and the youth vote, along with reducing Democrats’ advantage in early voting. They point out that there is little documented evidence of voter fraud.”
Wow. The Race Card. Didn’t see that comin’…… 🙄
As Politico points out, a war is coming now that the old act has finally fallen.
From Politico “State lawmakers from around the country crowded into a packed room Monday at the meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures to learn more about the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down the Voting Rights Act as activists gear up for a new battle over the ballot box.
The panelists that led at the NCSCL gathering in Atlanta said there’s so much interest in possible voting changes that more chairs had to be brought in for the larger-than-expected crowd that topped 100.”
“The high court’s ruling in June means that parts or all of 15 states can now pass laws and make changes to elections without needing pre-approval from the Justice Department – and a handful of them began to act immediately. The Justice Department has moved to stop Texas from going forward and put it back under preclearance, and a similar lawsuit has been filed by a separate group against a small town in southern Alabama.
In the meantime, changes to voting procedures could be small and localized – which may make them even more dangerous, according to activists.”
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This next one is great if you’re an illegal immigrant. But you still can’t visit the White House. As you can see, they have other funding priorities.
From FoxNews “A sudden influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico requesting asylum is overwhelming immigration agents in San Diego, forcing agencies to rent hotel rooms for some undocumented families and release others to cities around the U.S.
Documents obtained exclusively by Fox News show Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been paying for hotel rooms for dozens of recently arrived families to relieve overcrowding inside the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, Calif., processing centers. Some ICE employees are working overtime and others have been asked to volunteer to work weekend shifts. “Duties include intake, placements, transports and release of family groups and unaccompanied minors,” according to a memo obtained by Fox News.
The surge has raised suspicions about what is driving the influx, amid claims that illegal immigrants have learned they can attempt to get asylum by using a few key words — namely, by claiming they have a “credible fear” of drug cartels.
“This clearly has to have been orchestrated by somebody,” said former U.S. Attorney for Southern California Peter Nunez. “It’s beyond belief that dozens or hundreds or thousands of people would simultaneously decide that they should go to the U.S. and make this claim.””
Cough (Liberals) Cough (Dems and RINO’s) Cough (Obama) Cough……
Take your pick. Lot’s of suspects to choose from. Pretty much anyone in our govt is a potential suspect. 🙄
But all sarcasm aside, this will cause legitimate requests to be questioned as well. That’s not right. Unintended consequences are never considered.
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Here’s some more of your tax dollars at work.
From Reason “Labor activists using tactics adopted from the Occupy Wall Street movement are crashing restaurants across the nation in an effort to raise wages for workers – and they’re getting taxpayer money to fund the effort.
Using a combination of federal grants and grants from left-leaning organizations, the Restaurant Opportunity Center, or ROC, is technically a charitable nonprofit and not a union. But their pro-worker messages, anti-employer protests and self-proclaimed goal of organizing service sector employees for the purposes of negotiating higher wages make ROC look and sound much like a labor union.
Some see their tactics as a deliberate attempt to skirt the nation’s labor laws. Only unions elected by a majority of a workplace can negotiate with employers on workers’ behalf, though ROC seems to be doing so in the absence of any election.”
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Here’s an update on the Paula Dean lawsuit.
From MSN “A federal judge Monday threw out race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Deen has already cost the celebrity cook a valuable chunk of her culinary empire.
Lisa Jackson sued Deen and her brother, Bubba Hiers, last year saying she suffered from sexual harassment and racially offensive talk and employment practices that were unfair to black workers during her five years as a manager of Uncle Bubba’s Seafood and Oyster House. Deen is co-owner of the restaurant, which is primarily run by her brother.”
“But claims of race discrimination by Jackson, who is white, were gutted in the 20-page opinion by U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr. The judge agreed with lawyers for Deen and Hiers that Jackson has no standing to sue her former employers for what she claims was poor treatment of black workers, regardless of her claims that she was offended and placed under additional stress.
Jackson, at best, “is an accidental victim of the alleged racial discrimination,” Moore said in his ruling. “There are no allegations that defendant Hiers’s racially offensive comments were either directed toward plaintiff or made with the intent to harass her.”
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And the rodeo clown with the Obama mask has been banned from the MO. State Fair.
From Yahoo “The Missouri State Fair on Monday imposed a lifetime ban on a rodeo clown whose depiction of President Barack Obama getting charged by a bull was widely criticized by Democratic and Republican officials alike.
The rodeo clown won’t be allowed to participate or perform at the fair again. Fair officials say they’re also reviewing whether to take any action against the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, the contractor responsible for Saturday’s event.”
“The fair said in a written statement announcing the clown’s ban that he had engaged in an “unconscionable stunt” that was “inappropriate and not in keeping with the Fair’s standards.” The fair’s press release did not identify the clown.”
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Wandering Views 
In Clancy’s book, Against All Enemies, the terrorists smuggle weapons across from Mexico to shoot down commercial airliners at selected major cities (San Diego, LA, Pheonix, etc.) It is a realistic scenario. It doesn’t take high tech to do this.
Speaking of “high tech”, I just finished another 800+ page Clancy book called Threat Vector, the Threat Vector is digital and it shuts down most of the US, including our GPS, spy satellites, etc. The Chinese use it in attempt to takeover the South China Sea. I can’t give up too much of the plot because someone might want to read it. It’s an interesting read. I recently read something about cyber warfare, so I was familiar with some of the terms, like “botnet”.
Botnet, BTW, is a worthwhile concept to know. Someone in a distant location can infect many computers with a bug that makes the affected computer a slave to the master. That is, it becomes a robot in a network of robots. At a given time, for example, all of the computers in the net will attack the BoA system and crash it. Your computer may be infected. You don’t know it. But at noon on 21 August, it will send out a request to BoA for something. All of these together crash the system. That is called “denial of service” for the BoA system. It can be fixed, but it harasses the system. Worse things can happen, like shutting down a power grid, or causing a breakdown, as what happened to the Iranian nuclear program. Remember, Stuxnet crashed their system. Nobody yet knows who did it. Murphy’s Law. Most suspect that Murphy is a Jew.
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I see in the Washington Times that China wants Taiwan to stop buying US arms and buy their military equipment from them. Not stated is that they will place “trap door” software in the equipment to render in inoperable. They are likely putting trap doors into equipment we buy from them. When I’m president, there will be zero offshore electrical parts in military equipment.
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In regard to the rodeo clown, Rodeo Clowns are highly skilled people who use their abilities to distract the animal from the rider when the rider is thrown off the animal. Their work saves lives.
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When I glanced at the story and saw “rodeo clown” and “Obama” I assumed the story eas about Eric Holder.
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“Trap door” software I mentioned above, may be called “back door”. I forgot which. But you get the idea.
Speaking of that, another article in the Washington Times tells about some Senate dissatisfaction with the DOD about buying $572 million worth of helicopters from Russia. A Russian company will supply 30 helicopters to Afghanistan. Some Senators sent a letter to DOD criticizing the contract.
“DOD’s preference for Russian helicopters will also make it highly difficult to achieve robust interoperability between US and Afghan helicopters. ..These policies are extremely shortsighted and the problems are self inflicted.”
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Chas, In a former life, I did some computer programming in assembly language. Every programmer has a back door into the code of software. This is how the programmer updates the code. Oftentimes, the updated code will have gaps in the code that will allow a virus to enter. This is why Microsoft is constantly reminding you about software updates.
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That back door can be entered by bad guys if he wrote the source code or was in cahoots with someone who made the equipment. Such as the devices that control the amount of gas to the helicopter.
“I see my country disintegrating in front of me”.
Mark Levin on Fox News.
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A Thomas Sowell article worth reading: I saw it in The Washington Times.
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2013/08/06/busybody-politics-n1656527
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Thanks, Chas. Thomas Sowell never disappoints.
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Our brilliant federal government spend billions of dollars to drug our kids even as it spends billions of dollars for the War on Drugs.
http://www.worldmag.com/2013/08/does_poverty_make_kids_mentally_ill
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Wow. Now they’re going to implement “clown sensitivity training.” This is so awesome. Best political dust-up in a long time. 😉
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/13/rodeo-clowns-asked-take-sensitivity-training/
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2534213
” … Of course the Missouri State Fair can do what it wants, but the lifetime ban seems excessive. Any president comes in for a fair amount of public mockery, and what happened at the State Fair does not seem worse than the mockery of the president that occurred — without consequences like lifetime bans — during George W. Bush’s years in the White House. It’s not necessary to recite all the insults, threats, and other offenses directed at Bush during his presidency; if you were awake during those years, you know there were a lot of them. … ”
(Then they list a few. And who can forget that “film” actually depicting Bush’s assassination — Death of a President … )
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California is the laughingstock of the country, and the US is the laughingstock of the world:
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http://www.worldmag.com/2013/08/midday_roundup_throw_open_the_bathroom_stall_doors
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Some of my fb friends actually were going on and on yesterday, lauding the transgender bathrooms as something that’s long overdue. Thumbs up to that idea!
All hail the unisex bathroom.
It’s just crazy. Seriously.
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