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Tuesday’s Thoughts

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Tomorrow is the 12th anniversary of 9/11. I expect the MSM will do the usual 30 second spiels and then forget about the occasion…unless it fits some agenda item of theirs.

I’ll be in Jeff City to attend the veto override session tomorrow, so I’ll post this little reminder of 9/11, today.

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Obama is facing opposition from all directions, even his own party. He made a fool of himself by drawing a “Red Line” over chemical warfare in the Syrian civil war. Obama blamed Assad, wanting to support his Muzzie buddies. The problem is no one can prove who used Sarin gas on whom? Both sides claim the other did it.

Obama blamed Assad and threatened to attack Syrian government installations. The rebels cheered. Then, more news appeared and the rebels did not appear to be so blameless. The EU, as usual, got cold feet. Five years of Obama’s diplomatic assaults and insults against the UK grew fruit and the Brits said, “Not us!”

One by one, Obama’s expected allies dropped away, soon to be followed by…members of his own party. Locally, Representative Emmanuel Cleaver, who never met a commie he didn’t like, said, publicly, that he would not support Obama. Other democrat pols joined the opposition.

As Reid and Boehner counted noses in Congress, Obama did not have any support to attack Syria. Reid, to save some face for Obama,is delaying a resolution to attack Syria to a vote. Boehner is like to follow. Why would they not vote? Neither wants to embarrass Obama.

Now Vladimir Putin has upstaged Obama with a solution to remove all chemical weapons from Syria. Assad has agreed. The rebels are balking. That speaks volumes on who is likely to have attacked whom—those Obama wanted to support.

Obama can’t lie his way out of this situation.

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We have a local issue that is beginning to draw public attention. Last October, the Raymore city council voted to install a Roundabout at the intersection of one of the city’s heaviest points, Lucy Webb and Dean. Both are high-volume streets, especially during rush hours. Before construction started, only Dean Avenue had stop signs, Lucy Web did not.

The reason for the roundabout was supposedly for increase safety and enhance traffic flow. The proposed cost, last October was around $450,000. Since that time, the contractor has raised his price another $100,000. Over half a million in construction costs alone. Cheaper options to add two more stops signs, making the intersection a 4-way stop, costing maybe a $1,000 at most, or to install traffic lights like the intersection a few hundred yards to the east, were discard, if they were discussed at all. In the end, the vote was a tie to kill the project or at least to revisit the cost and scope. Mayor Pete Kerckhoff broke the tie to continue the project and increase the budget to more the $500,000.

Construction started a week or so ago and we’re already seeing the results of the council’s lust to spend. The proposed roundabout, designed purposely to be single-lane, is too small. A truck got stuck this morning trying to navigate through the intersection. I drive a Tahoe. I have difficulty getting around the roundabout traffic lane.

No, the whole project is turning into a gigantic example of governmental misfeasance and incompetency. One council member claims they tested the design by drawing the traffic lanes in a parking lot. They had no problems. Obviously, their testing was faulty.

Half-a-million dollar project and it is too small. I would not be surprised, after real-world use proves the defects of the concept, that the council will want to spend more to “fix” the roundabout’s design. How much will this cost in all? A million? More? There is land to be bought to expand the intersection if that is the solution.

More waste by council members with a lust to spend when a solution could have been in place last year for a thousand dollars or less. You can bet Raymore’s residents will remember this fiasco when the next city elections come around.

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Convergence

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There was a movie a couple of years ago called, The Perfect Storm. A number of weather events converged to create a monster storm in the Atlantic. It’s beginning to appear as if a Perfect Storm is building in Washington, DC.

There are three scandals coming to light in Washington—four, if you include the Kermit Barron Gosnell trial in Philadelphia. First is the Benghazi investigation. We now know that not only were the Marine guards reduced during Hilliary’s term as SecState, that warnings of the attack were received in advance, that security forces were stood down from the beginning of the attack and the WH and the State Department tried to blame a You Tube video that was uploaded months previously and that had very few viewings.

The second is the IRS’ attempted intimidation by audit of the tax-exempt status conservative and Jewish groups supporting Israel and of those similar groups applying for tax-exempt status. We now know this affront was started in the IRS HQ in Washington, not solely in the Cincinnati field office as initially claimed. In fact that Cincinnati office isn’t a field office at all. It is the prime office governing Tax-exempt applications and audits of those tax-exempt organizations. This scandal continues to grow as more evidence is being uncovered that shows the audits of conservative and Jewish groups was much wider than initially thought.

The third scandal that has just appeared is the DoJ’s “investigation” of reporters of the Associated Press. The DoJ wiretapped 20 lines in the AP’s Washington office and seized telephone records of hundreds of reporters. The DoJ has refused to explain their actions. So much for Obama’s administration for the 1st Amendment and freedom of the press.

The pressure on Obama is mounting and the stress is showing. He’s acting more and more erratic. In a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein’s home with Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, he blamed Rush Limbaugh as the reason why ‘Pubs won’t cooperate with him and give him a rubber stamp to do whatever he wants. It’s like a child having a hissy-fit when that child doesn’t get what he wants. It is reminiscent of Nixon wandering the halls of the White House during his last days, conversing with the ghosts of past presidents and crying in the arms of Henry Kissinger.

However, Nixon was, by heritage, a Quaker. Obama’s heritage is that of a socialist, a Marxist.  Nixon, under pressure, reverted to his heritage. He sought forgiveness and redemption, an inculcation of his Quaker heritage that lead to his resignation.

We don’t know what Obama will do under pressure, but we can assume he won’t resign like Nixon. No, I would expect Obama to be more like Hitler, hiding to the last in a bunker as events sweep toward him, lashing out against his foes to the end.

In the mean time, we live under that old Chinese curse: “to live in interesting times.” Personally, I’d rather it’d not be quite so interesting. However, that option was taken from us with Obama’s reelection.

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The Focus of the Obama Administration

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Isn’t it amazing how accurate Glenn McCoy’s cartoons are? Heh!

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Chuck Asay, too, is accurate concerning our current business climate. How true. The government is a predator feeding off our economy.

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This week Eric Holder filed suit against Arizona for having the audacity to uphold federal immigration laws when the federal government as abdicated that responsibility. I’ve asked before why the Obama Administration is aiding and abetting our enemies while ignoring those constitutional responsibilities. That question is still unanswered. Obama: US enemies=good, US security and safety=bad.

White House: Violate national security? Us? Why never!

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There is currently a very large flap over the planned violation of national security by the White House.. Earlier this week, FBI Director Robert Mueller had a closed meeting with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA). In that closed meeting, Mueller announced that the Christmas/Crotch Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was cooperating now that his family had been brought to the US. Initially, after being Mirandized, the bomber had stopped talking.

Mueller pleaded that the fact that Abdulmutallab was talking be keep secret because disclosure would alert Abdulmutallab’s confederates that the bomber was talking and identifying them. A public session of the committee was scheduled and Mueller wanted to insure that all the members were informed of the interrogation progress in a private session and to ask them to keep that information secret. It was classified information and not to be made public. Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) was not present at the closed meeting. Director Mueller called Senator Bond privately and informed him of the progress and made the same request to keep the information secret.

When the open meeting of the Committee occurred on Tuesday of this week, the Chairman, Senator Diane Feinstein, asked Director Mueller if Abdulmutallab was still being interrogated. Mueller’s response was a single, “Yes.” Then Feinstein asked if Abdulmutallab was talking. After a pause where Mueller if visibly uncomfortable, he again replied with a single, “Yes.”

Within a few hours, the White House was trumpeting the interrogation success and the information being gained from Abdulmutallab. The White House made the information into a media event. Bond, outraged, sent a scathing letter to the White House on their further disclosure of the classified information. Bond, in his letter, says, “Doing so would threaten ongoing efforts to stop operations the intelligence community thought were possibly happening against the United States.” Bond continues, “Distortion of the congressional notification process suggests that other considerations are taking precedence over keeping timely and sensitive information away from our enemies”. Bond implied that due to the speed of the White House disclosure, the release had been planned well in advance—in clear violation of national security. Gibbs, the White House spokesman said that Bond should apologize for his letter. Here is a FOX News report of the incident. Another news organization called the White House press release a “craven act.”

The AFP reports…

(AFP) – 21 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The White House demanded an apology Thursday from a top US senator who charged its disclosure that the Christmas bomb plot suspect was cooperating with interrogators may have helped violent extremists.

Republican Senator Kit Bond, his party’s senior member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a letter to President Barack Obama that he was “deeply disturbed” by revelations in a Tuesday briefing.

In that session, senior US officials told reporters at the White House that US counter-terrorism officials enlisted some of accused bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s relatives in a successful bid to get him to talk.

“This information immediately hit the air waves globally and, no doubt, reached the ears of our enemies abroad,” Bond said, warning that the disclosure “has no doubt been helpful to his terrorist cohorts around the world.”

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs denied that the administration had misused classified information and demanded Bond say sorry to law-enforcement professionals who would never allow information to be used that way.

“I think an apology on that is owed because it’s not true,” Gibbs said. “I think that the reason that charge is made is only to play politics. I think if you look at the letter, clearly this is about politics.”

Gibbs said that the White House had only briefed reporters when it became clear from testimony by top law-enforcement officials in Congress that Abdulmutallab had been talking to investigators.

Bond scoffed at the demand: “After telling me to keep my mouth shut, the White House discloses sensitive information in an effort to defend a dangerous and unpopular decision … and I?m supposed to apologize?”

The White House had been hitting back hard at Republican charges that it lost valuable intelligence by treating Abdulmutallab as a criminal and informing him of his right to remain silent.

Obama aides have underlined that authorities followed established practice to the letter and accused Republicans of seeking political gain by attacking methods they did not criticize when used by George W. Bush.

“It frustrated the hell out of me that I had to listen to a lot of the comments being made that were criticizing this process,” said one of the briefers, who told reporters the session was in response to a leak.

Bond said FBI Director Robert Mueller had informed key lawmakers Monday that Abdulmutallab was providing “critical information” and emphasized that “keeping the fact of his cooperation quiet was vital to preventing future attacks against the United States.”

“Twenty-four hours later, however, White House staff assembled members of the media to announce Abdulmutallab?s cooperation and to laud the events that led to his decision to cooperate with law enforcement personnel,” said Bond.

“Consider the consequences of publicly disseminating sensitive information vital to the defense of the American people. I do not believe the American people want this information jeopardized to further political arguments,” he wrote.

US officials accuse Abdulmutallab, allegedly trained in Yemen by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, of trying to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear on a Northwest Airlines plane approaching Detroit on December 25.

Is this another case of, “None dare call it Treason?”

White House: Violate national security? Us? Why never!

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There is currently a very large flap over the planned violation of national security by the White House.. Earlier this week, FBI Director Robert Mueller had a closed meeting with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA). In that closed meeting, Mueller announced that the Christmas/Crotch Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was cooperating now that his family had been brought to the US. Initially, after being Mirandized, the bomber had stopped talking.

Mueller pleaded that the fact that Abdulmutallab was talking be keep secret because disclosure would alert Abdulmutallab’s confederates that the bomber was talking and identifying them. A public session of the committee was scheduled and Mueller wanted to insure that all the members were informed of the interrogation progress in a private session and to ask them to keep that information secret. It was classified information and not to be made public. Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) was not present at the closed meeting. Director Mueller called Senator Bond privately and informed him of the progress and made the same request to keep the information secret.

When the open meeting of the Committee occurred on Tuesday of this week, the Chairman, Senator Diane Feinstein, asked Director Mueller if Abdulmutallab was still being interrogated. Mueller’s response was a single, “Yes.” Then Feinstein asked if Abdulmutallab was talking. After a pause where Mueller if visibly uncomfortable, he again replied with a single, “Yes.”

Within a few hours, the White House was trumpeting the interrogation success and the information being gained from Abdulmutallab. The White House made the information into a media event. Bond, outraged, sent a scathing letter to the White House on their further disclosure of the classified information. Bond, in his letter, says, “Doing so would threaten ongoing efforts to stop operations the intelligence community thought were possibly happening against the United States.” Bond continues, “Distortion of the congressional notification process suggests that other considerations are taking precedence over keeping timely and sensitive information away from our enemies”. Bond implied that due to the speed of the White House disclosure, the release had been planned well in advance—in clear violation of national security. Gibbs, the White House spokesman said that Bond should apologize for his letter. Here is a FOX News report of the incident. Another news organization called the White House press release a “craven act.”

The AFP reports…

(AFP) – 21 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The White House demanded an apology Thursday from a top US senator who charged its disclosure that the Christmas bomb plot suspect was cooperating with interrogators may have helped violent extremists.

Republican Senator Kit Bond, his party’s senior member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a letter to President Barack Obama that he was “deeply disturbed” by revelations in a Tuesday briefing.

In that session, senior US officials told reporters at the White House that US counter-terrorism officials enlisted some of accused bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s relatives in a successful bid to get him to talk.

“This information immediately hit the air waves globally and, no doubt, reached the ears of our enemies abroad,” Bond said, warning that the disclosure “has no doubt been helpful to his terrorist cohorts around the world.”

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs denied that the administration had misused classified information and demanded Bond say sorry to law-enforcement professionals who would never allow information to be used that way.

“I think an apology on that is owed because it’s not true,” Gibbs said. “I think that the reason that charge is made is only to play politics. I think if you look at the letter, clearly this is about politics.”

Gibbs said that the White House had only briefed reporters when it became clear from testimony by top law-enforcement officials in Congress that Abdulmutallab had been talking to investigators.

Bond scoffed at the demand: “After telling me to keep my mouth shut, the White House discloses sensitive information in an effort to defend a dangerous and unpopular decision … and I?m supposed to apologize?”

The White House had been hitting back hard at Republican charges that it lost valuable intelligence by treating Abdulmutallab as a criminal and informing him of his right to remain silent.

Obama aides have underlined that authorities followed established practice to the letter and accused Republicans of seeking political gain by attacking methods they did not criticize when used by George W. Bush.

“It frustrated the hell out of me that I had to listen to a lot of the comments being made that were criticizing this process,” said one of the briefers, who told reporters the session was in response to a leak.

Bond said FBI Director Robert Mueller had informed key lawmakers Monday that Abdulmutallab was providing “critical information” and emphasized that “keeping the fact of his cooperation quiet was vital to preventing future attacks against the United States.”

“Twenty-four hours later, however, White House staff assembled members of the media to announce Abdulmutallab?s cooperation and to laud the events that led to his decision to cooperate with law enforcement personnel,” said Bond.

“Consider the consequences of publicly disseminating sensitive information vital to the defense of the American people. I do not believe the American people want this information jeopardized to further political arguments,” he wrote.

US officials accuse Abdulmutallab, allegedly trained in Yemen by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, of trying to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear on a Northwest Airlines plane approaching Detroit on December 25.

Is this another case of, “None dare call it Treason?”

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