Very interesting post at The Last Refuge blog tonight – Hillary Clinton used her personal email account while Secretary of State to conduct official business. Of course, sundance, the excellent blogger, also includes many helpful reminders of some odd happenings during Hillary Clinton’s tenure at Foggy Bottom, like the mysterious fire above her office in 2012, while they were busily trying to bury the Benghazi investigation……..ashes to ashes, it seems. Definitely, read sundance’s post and check out the links t0 refresh your memory on the timeline.
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Rut Roh – Hillary Clinton Never Used State Dept Email Account – Only Used Personal Email for Entire Four Years…
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Muslim Brotherhood Official Says White House Official Was Present During Meeting With State Department…
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Truth in advertising…..not
How about an expanded bio for Robert Kagan’s opinion piece, “Five reasons Netanyahu should not address Congress”, at the Washington Post:
“Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He writes a monthly foreign affairs column for The Post.”
Let’s add he is the spouse of Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasisan Affairs at the US State Department.
Here’s the most laughable part in his 5-point, shallowly disguised State Department talking points:
“U.S. congressional leaders probably should have given this invitation more thought. Although not a violation of the letter of the Constitution, it certainly seems to violate the idea that the nation speaks with one voice on foreign policy and that foreign leaders cannot choose whether they prefer to deal with Congress or the president.”
Would that the President could speak with one voice, we might have a coherent foreign policy, instead of this meandering, sloppily edited narrative coming from the White House. While the President fixates on parsing Islamist terrorism and turning the Taliban into something other than a terrorist entity, to mask the Bergdahl/Gitmo detainee swap as something other than a disastrous decision, Netanyahu can be counted on to give an inspiring, carefully researched, accurate, and riveting speech. And he doesn’t even need to rely on a teleprompter. That’s why the White House is trying to dissuade Netanyahu from speaking to Congress. He will succeed at swaying American public opinion and that is a threat to the Obama administration that mobilizes them, as no Islamist terrorism ever will.
Thanks Robert Kagan/Nuland, but a dose of honesty about your connections to the Obama administration rather than your Brookings Institution bio would have served readers better.
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You’ll love Brad Thor’s two-word response to this Muslim activist on the #CharlieHebdo terrorist attack
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A memorial?
Last month, I came across reports in several conservative blogs, quoting a CNN story about Mike Brown, of #Ferguson fame, residing in an unmarked grave. The timeline speaks of priorities. Mike Brown died August 9, 2014. He was buried August 25, 2014. His mother, Lesley McSpadden and a group of thugs, allegedly attacked Mike Brown’s grandmother and a group of friends and family selling “Justice for Mike Brown” T-shirts on October 18, 2014. McSpadden and her group allegedly stole $1500 worth of merchandise, $400 cash and one person went to the hospital for injuries sustained in the attack.
This grieving mother could gather a gang to fight over who should profit from her son’s death, while her son lies in an unmarked grave. The MSM and black grievance industry have been carting McSpadden and her drug dealer husband, Louis Head around to drum up anti-police sentiment and fuel racial tensions, yet she hasn’t even had a headstone or marker put on her son’s grave. Likewise, the family of Staten Island police victim, Eric Garner,has been in a media whirl too. Garner was buried in July 2014 in a cemetery in Linden, NJ and surprisingly his grave also sits untended and unmarked.
Now, to complete this bizarre tale of memorializing the dead, along comes this story today of a Ferguson police officer, Timothy Zoll, being put on administrative leave for referring to a makeshift pile of mementos in the middle of the street, euphemistically dubbed a “Mike Brown Memorial”, as a pile of trash. Someone drove through the memorial in the middle of the street and idiots, yes, I said idiots posted photos of the carnage wrought and also if you scroll down there’s a photo of the memorial restored.
Is this really what memorializing the dead has come to in America – a pile of stuffed animals, dead flowers and assorted cheap bric-a-brac placed in the middle of a street? Where’s the outrage that all of these people profiting from Mike Brown’s death, to include his mother, can fight over T-shirt revenues before even caring for his grave? The silence is deafening. Yet, the Washington Post wants to sensationalize the police officer speaking the truth – it’s a pile of trash in the middle of the street.
Perhaps, at some of these protests, the black grievance leaders can take up a collection for decent headstones for the black men, whose names they’ve cheaply commercialized, with catchy, “hands up” and ” I can’t breathe” advertising gimmicks, to further their political aims.
If that months old, moldering pile of trash in the middle of the street is a memorial to a young life lost in America, the devaluation of human life plummeted far lower than most of us could ever have imagined.
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Civil order first
Justice For Jessica Chambers Murder Claims,
Sundance at http://theconservativetreehouse.com/ recently stated the following misleading information about Jessica Chambers;
“I know Jessica was not out of the Leah House as mom and dad claim. That was a lie, or misspeak, dunno. But Jess was only out since end of Nov. So maybe only a week.”
Sundance is obliviously a harbinger that will state a lie as fact to add creditability to his speculative theories and self importance.
The fact is Jessica Chambers had been out of Leah’s House since October, because she started her new job working for Goody’s (Batesville) sometime in October.
Jessica Chambers’ mother said her daughter “Jessica came home Friday night after ending her shift at Goody’s Department Store in Batesville, where she had recently started working“.
Listen carefully to phone interview with Bria Lundy Goody’s Director of PR at 00:59 in the video at the link below.
The claims Sundance at http://theconservativetreehouse.com/ makes should always be checked and rechecked for truth and accuracy!
#justiceforjessica #jessicachambers”
I began responding to TexasRanger’s comment, but then ran on so long that making it a post seemed better. So here goes, I’m climbing on my soapbox as I type. Grab a cup of coffee, because I ran lonnng here:-)
Your point about checking and rechecking for truth and accuracy should be emblazoned on a banner in every newsroom in America.
This case caught my attention, because of its similarities to the Deandre Joshua murder in Ferguson. I’ve sensed a racial bias, meaning it’s easier to look for the best in one race’s behavior than another, in many of the comments at the Conservative Treehouse. This same bias happens after all these big black and white crimes that catch national media attention. The polling on everything from Rodney King, OJ, on to the present Michael Brown, and Eric Garner cases, shows this clearly. Racial hatred, where racial bias festers into something very ugly and dark, on the other hand, exists on both sides and in a place like MS, it’s frequently out in the open.
From what I have seen at the CTH, in this case, they’ve allowed themselves to form an emotional attachment to the victim, and initially approached this crime as “an innocent white girl, minding her own business, was set upon by a black gang”. The post where they photoshopped Jesssica’s head onto an angel’s body, clearly makes my point. They’ve invested a lot of time into understanding and rationalizing the motives for her bad choices, when evidence-gathering should be a setting down of facts – as emotionally detached as possible. I still believe that sundance works hard to uncover facts and if he realizes he posted an incorrect fact, he’ll correct it. With the volume of comments at his blog and people sending him information, it’s easy to make a mistake.
There’s nothing wrong with feeling horror and demanding justice but in America, lady justice wears a blindfold for a reason. It’s not just the Jessica Chambers case that the mainstream press walked away from. They walked away from the Deandre Joshua murder too, preferring to cling to the Michael Brown mythological victim story. If you look at the photo of Jessica and her first gangster boyfriend, Bryan Rudd, both of them, look so young and innocent and while it’s easy to cast him as a gangster, both of these kids got involved with a gang, got into drugs and police records that came to light, thus far, show Jessica had two arrests for assault and Rudd has a quickly expanding criminal record. Further digging might uncover more crimes committed by both, but the point is – here is America’s future, decimated by crime and drugs. Look at the picture of Deandre Joshua, drug dealer, whose family hoped for so much more for him.
The Chambers and Joshua cases struck me as being similar – gang-related, possibly the victims being perceived as snitches. That’s what caught my attention. I am not an investigator, I’m a mom, a grandma and I work in an ordinary blue-collar job at a store. In recent years I’ve talked to so many Jessicas, Deandres and Bryans at work and lamented the waste of human potential from America’s poor communities. I also have experience with a child who got into drugs in college and know that heartbreak and anguish first-hand. I realized that Deandre, just like Jessica, had gotten involved with drugs and a gang.
Even Michael Brown, with his sorry mother and her drug-dealer boyfriend/husband, should shout that we need to save our kids, if America is to have a future. In America – we’ve got a serious gang problem, a serious drug problem and a lingering race problem and instead of fixating on “racism”, we need to deal with the crime and drugs robbing our kids of a future. We must preserve civil order first! While some of us who served in the military have sworn an oath to defend and protect The Constitution, we’ve got hard work ahead to teach our young people, that screaming about your civil rights is secondary to following the rule of law and carrying out your duties as good citizens. We’ve all got to respect the rule of law and each other, or our Republic will collapse.
“United we stand, divided we Fall”
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A “squatters rights” movement squashed in Detroit
Rick Moran at The American Thinker posted a story with a link to a very amusing video from a reporter in Detroit on the so-called “squatters rights” movement – “Watch this Detroit squatter get what’s coming to her”
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“A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” (the Obama war plan)
The war against ISIL/ISIS/IS continues to muddle along. So, it looks like the Obama administration decided to put more effort into helping the Kurds fight for Kobani, whilst ISIL/ISIS/IS decided to strike on towards Baghdad. We like our fights broken down into good guys vs bad guys, but in that region of the world, a lot fall into the bad guy group, very few into the good guy group, and a disconcerting number switch sides, hold dual loyalties, or can easily be bought, making choosing sides decidedly difficult. Turkey finally agreed to allow aid for the Kurds at Kobani to flow through Turkey. However, now the Syrian Kurds are angry about that. Jamie Dettmer at Global Security.org reports:
“Syrian Kurdish leaders are pushing back on Turkey’s
plan to allow Kurdish Peshmerga forces from northern Iraq to transit Turkish territory and to enter the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani to help in its defense.”
“Mideast politics is notoriously complex and among the most Byzantine involves the Kurdish political parties who vie for top-dog status and compete for the loyalty of all Kurds across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.”
The Obama administration charged into this war as clueless about the realities on the ground as they consistently demonstrated with their “prescient analysis” (that’s a joke) of the Arab Spring and choosing winners and losers there. We now are arming US designated terrorists in Kobani to fight the ISIL/ISIS/IS terrorists. We are still searching for elusive “Syrian moderates” from which to build a paramilitary force to be the “boots on the ground” in Syria to fight ISIL/ISIS/IS, an endeavor which US Central Command commander, Lloyd Austin says will take time. From McClatchyDC, “U.S. general: ‘It’ll take time’ to train new Syria force, reclaim Iraq turf, defeat Islamic State”:
“U.S. officials have said the United States is only at the very beginning of creating a new Syrian paramilitary, which will be handpicked from the country’s hodgepodge of rebel forces whose first concern isn’t the Islamic State but their long struggle to overthrow the government of President Bashar Assad.Austin certainly didn’t raise hopes about the prospects of a streamlined Syrian ground partner emerging anytime soon; at one point he referred to the goal as “hopefully, a force that we can train in Syria.”
The message couched in Austin’s remarks was clear: The existing Syrian rebel structure is untenable and the United States aims to build its own Syrian proxy – only this time, enemy No. 1 is the Islamic State instead of Assad. It remains unclear how many Syrian rebels would sign up on those terms. It’s even less clear how many of the current rebels the United States is courting, given their repeated battlefield coordination with the local al Qaida affiliate and other jihadists.”
To highlight the bizarre meanderings of Obama’s war plan, we are fighting ISIL/ISIS/IS in Iraq and Syria, while hoping to coax (bribe) some Syrian rebel groups to help us, even though they and ISIL/ISIS/IS are Sunnis and mutually see Assad as their #1 enemy. Any ground we force ISIL to cede in Syria, Assad is the only one with forces prepared to take advantage of, so our air strikes will, in reality, aid Assad. In Iraq, we are arming Kurdish fighters in Kobani who are members of an US designated terrorist entity – the PKK. In Baghdad, the weak government is relying on Iranian-backed Shiite militias – from this same McClatchyDC report:
“The weak Baghdad government is now forced into relying on Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim militias and untrained volunteers to fill the security vacuum. That’s led to an indirect U.S.-Iranian partnership against the Islamic State, translating into the U.S. military providing air cover for the same Shiite militiamen who not too many years ago were killing American soldiers.”
A news report yesterday stated that ISIL had launched mortar attacks against the US embassy in Baghdad, yet President Obama’s focus is on Kobani. We’re reliant on our small contingent of American “boots on the ground”, the Iraqi security forces who run away from ISIL and Iranian-backed militants if ISIL launches a multi-pronged attack on our embassy and/or Baghdad. Of course, I am sure that now that Valerie Jarrett is back on the job, recovering from back surgery, President Obama and the girls at the WH will make stupendous military decisions……. Childhood memories of the fall of Saigon popped into my mind, along with teenage memories of the Iranian hostage situation, followed by adult memories of my total disgust and anger at watching the Clinton presidential policy disgrace at Mogadishu. Now, we have this slow-motion disaster unfolding and where is the press at figuring out the big picture strategic disaster looming ahead???
The Last Refuge blog ran a post titled, “Lavrov’s Paradox”, highlighting that if you’re confused with who we’re arming in Obama’s war, you’re not alone. Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, described it as follows from a CNS report, “Russian FM: We and the US Are Arming Opposing Sides in Syrian Conflict”:
“Meanwhile the U.S.-led coalition was both bombing Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists and providing armed support “to the opposition forces fighting the Bashar Assad regime alongside the Islamic State,” he said.
“The U.S. considers this support ‘moderate’ and therefore acceptable,” Lavrov continued. “Its purpose is to help the Syrian opposition achieve the potential to overthrow the current regime in Syria. The controversial and paradoxical nature of these actions is obvious, in my view. We have been discussing this with our U.S. counterparts, trying to understand their logic, but have not received any clear explanations so far.””
Don’t worry, surely, “I voted for the $87 billion, before I voted against it” Kerry will untangle this Gordian knot of a strategy…… And President Obama with his girls at the WH will compose a winning narrative…. Too bad real American servicemembers will pay the price for the looming, inevitable failure, while the leader from behind plays golf. Meanwhile, Lavrov and Putin will continue to ponder the American paradox and bizarre detour from geopolitical realities, like trying to define Obama’s understanding of American national interests. And to think, the West used to find the Russians perplexing:
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” – Winston Churchill (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_riddle_wrapped_up_in_an_enigma)
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