Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:06 AM PDT
Reuters is reporting that the United States Ambassador to Libya and three other consular workers killed when their car was attacked as they were leaving a consular building under attack by terrorists (not militants, not activists, not protestors) protesting a film which they believe insults the Prophet Mohammad.
This is an attack on the United States and an act of war. The Libyan government should be given 48-hours to round up those who were responsible.
According to Reuters …
U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.
According to President Obama and his fellow travelers, Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance. Bullshit! These people go “bat-shit insane” at the slighted provocation. So I have little or no doubt that this was an orchestrated attempt to foment more anti-America trouble in the region.
"The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters.
There was no immediate comment from the State Department in Washington. U.S. ambassadors in such volatile countries are accompanied by tight security, usually travelling in well-protected convoys. Security officials will be considering whether the two attacks were coordinated.
Libyan deputy prime minister Mustafa Abu Shagour condemned the killing of the U.S. diplomats as a cowardly act.
The consular official had died after clashes between Libyan security forces and Islamist militants around the consulate building. Looters raided the empty compound and some onlookers took pictures after calm returned.
In neighboring Egypt, demonstrators had torn down an American flag and burned it during the protest. Some tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger", a Reuters witness said.  <Source:U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack>
Bottom line …
Muslims respect nothing except their religion, force and the will to use force. It is time to demonstrate to Muslims who attack American property or Americans that their will be a disproportionate “shock and awe” campaign targeting the region’s terrorists. As for collateral damage, don’t worry, every Muslim wants to die a Martyr for Allah. So in a sense, we are doing them a favor.
When is this craziness going to stop? Any rational observer can see that Muslims are all about their perverted religion which has no tolerance for other religions or cultures and the blood of infidels. In fact, when there are no infidels, the fight each other to determine who should control Islam as the defender of the faith. Muslims should be restricted from traveling to the United States at the very least.
For those who say that this unfairly punishes the innocent Muslim people for the acts of a few terrorists, it is these very people who should be keeping the terrorists in check. Unfortunately, there is no separation of church and state and the state’s position is to advance the cause of Islam in any way possible.
Being a cynic, I must ask. Is this a diversionary scheme to keep the United States occupied and away from Iran? Is this a ruse to make Barack Obama look Presidential – tough on terrorism?
Let’s see if Obama and Hillary Clinton will take action.
-- steve
Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:10 AM PDT
For those who have never seen a union contract or wonder what might be hidden in its provisions, here a a great opportunity to see exactly what a union contract looks like and the mind-numbing provisions it contains.
The recently-expired Chicago Teachers contract  can be found at …
After scanning this contract, you will quickly see why rather lazy politicians leave it up to staff to read through the actual contract and work primarily from summary sheets.
Bottom line …
  • The teachers and others in the collective bargaining unit should be pleased that they have a job which pays in excess of the rates found in the private sector. Teachers shall be compensated on rates comparable to the private sector.
  • The teachers should get no salary increases, and suffer a 10% pay cut to align them with the shared suffering put forth by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and President Barack Obama. Both men the recipient of near 100% of union political support.
  • The teachers should pay an increasing part of their medical and pension contributions in line with practices in the private sector.
  • Teachers shall not receive artificial “bumps” in pensions for any reason.
  • The teachers should be switched to a defined contribution pension like the 401(k) pensions found in the private sector instead of a defined benefit pension which is slowly bankrupting Chicago.
  • The teachers should be tested for both subject matter competence and teaching ability once every three years.
  • Teachers should no longer receive tenure and become “at will” employees who can be fired like everyone else in the private sector.
  • Teachers should no longer be forced to pay union dues if they want to teach. All dues should be voluntary.
  • Teachers should not be compensated for being overqualified. Teachers with Master’s degrees teaching second grade will be compensated at the rate for second grade teachers.
  • The union grievance procedure shall be modified so that any case is reviewable in a court of competent jurisdiction if union mediation fails after 48-hours.
  • The loyalty oath as regarding socialists and communists shall be reinstated.
  • Any teacher convicted of a sex crime shall receive the maximum allowable sentence with no plea bargaining, no parole and no pension.
There is absolutely no reason to create a privileged political class that holds the democrat party in thrall with promises or threats related to campaign funding, voter support or the support of an opposing party.
-- steve
Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:07 AM PDT
I couldn’t stop laughing at the Al Qaeda idiot who thought Americans would buy into a “traditional Muslim offer of a conditional and limited peace plan.” This is an old Muslim trick to lull your enemies into relaxing their guard while you recruit, re-group, re-arm and grow stronger.
It would legitimatize the “stateless” Al Qaeda regime as a political power in addition to being terrorists …

Exclusive: Al Qaeda leader's brother offers peace plan

The brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri is proposing to mediate a peace deal between the West and Islamists.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Mohamed al Zawahiri unveiled his proposal for the first time, saying he is in a unique position to help end the violence and that both sides need to make concessions. As the al Qaeda leader's brother, he says they are ideologically inseparable, and that if anyone can talk his brother out of violence it's him.
But first you must let me out of jail …
Mohamed spent 14 years in Egyptian jail on charges including terrorism and involvement in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat 1981. He denies the charges. For five years he was in solitary confinement in a cell 180 cm by 180cm (6 feet x 6 feet) where, locked in with his own thoughts, he had plenty of time to plan what to do when released.
The plan …
His six-page proposal offers a 10-year truce if the following terms are met. In brief they are:
• U.S. and West to stop intervening in Muslim lands
• U.S. to stop interfering in Muslim education
• U.S. to end the war on Islam
• U.S. to release all Islamist prisoners.
The document also calls on Islamists to change their behavior too:
• Stop attacks on Western and U.S. interests
• Protect legitimate Western and U.S. interests in Muslim lands
• Stop provoking the U.S. and the West
Not exactly the first time we have heard about a “10-year” peace plan …
On January 25, 2004, senior Hamas official Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi offered a 10-year truce in return for the establishment of a Palestinian state and the complete withdrawal by Israel from the territories captured in the 1967 Six Day War.
So what’s so special about a “10-year” plan?
Hudna is an Arabic term meaning a temporary "truce" or "armistice" as well as "calm" or "quiet", coming from a verbal root meaning "calm". It is sometimes translated as "cease-fire".
The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah was an event that took place during the formation of Islam. It was a pivotal treaty between Muhammad, representing the state of Medina, and the Quraish tribe of Mecca in March 628 to decrease tension between the two cities, affirmed a 10-year peace, and authorized Muhammad's followers to return the following year in a peaceful pilgrimage,
How did it end?
In the year 628, when the prophet Mohammed considered his forces to be too weak to overcome the rival Kuraysh tribes, he concluded with them aten-year truce (hudna) referred to as the Hudaybiya accord. Less than two years later,having consolidated their power, the Muslim forces attacked the Kuraysh tribes and defeated them, thereby enabling Mohammed to conquer Mecca.  <Source>  Note: because of the difficulty in transliterating Arabic, there is a difference in spelling of the tribe’s name in the two paragraphs.
Bottom line …
With the another  Al Qaeda terrorist killed in a drone strike, the leadership has become decimated and the adherents demoralized. They need time to recruit, re-group, re-arm so as to be able to mount the next attack on the West.
Unless this terrorist finds someone stupid enough, perhaps Barack Obama, to accept his “peace” plan, he should rot in jail and the rest of the terrorists exterminated like infectious cockroaches.
-- steve
Reference Links …
Exclusive: Al Qaeda leader's brother offers peace plan - CNN.com
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT
Here is a man who is putting up a $1 million bounty on any person who is able to compromise the sanctity of Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns. And what makes him a disgusting American is that he is openly encouraging criminal activity for political purposes.
Larry Flynt’s X-Rated Plan to Expose Mitt Romney
The Hustler publisher, who usually digs for sexual dirt, is determined to expose Romney’s tax returns. He talks to Lauren Ashburn about his million-dollar reward.
The Hustler publisher bought full-page ads in The Washington Post and USA Today, promising “$1 Million” for information about Mitt Romney’s unreleased tax returns and/or details of his offshore assets, bank accounts, and business partnerships.” The ads also ran in papers in Zurich, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands, home to some of the world’s most infamous tax shelters. The unanswered question, in Flynt’s mind: What is Romney hiding?
“The only reason to not release the returns is to avoid taxes or hide assets. He’s hiding assets,” Flynt tells me. “The guy’s a multibillionaire.”
To hear Flynt tell it, Romney isn’t just worth $250 million, as the former Bain Capital boss would have us believe. Flynt insists, without evidence, that Romney is hiding much of his money because he may lose the presidency if it turns out the guy is really, really loaded, not just superrich.  “No working stiff who goes to a ballot box can relate to a billionaire.”
Flynt, who has said he is worth $400 million, knows the power of cash—especially when it comes to getting sources to spill the beans.
He’s betting that the tried-and-true tabloid method of paying for information will sink the Republican nominee, who, says Flynt, “scares me to death” and doesn’t have the best interests of the country at heart.
 And who exactly would have access to Romney’s deepest, darkest financial secrets?
 “I don’t expect his attorneys or his accountants or his cronies to give him up,” Flynt says, “but some clerk will.”
Bottom line …
The idea than an American citizen should be able to place a bounty on another American’s private papers should be illegal. The spirit of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment against the government’s unreasonable search and seizure is being violated. Similar to the government inducing criminals to disclose information on a person of interest and then claiming to have clean hands.
If Larry Flynt was a patriot, he would have made the same offer regarding President Barack Obama’s hidden records. Using Larry Flynt’s line “’scares me to death’ and doesn’t have the best interests of the country at heart,” I am wondering if Obama has traveled abroad to Muslim Pakistan, in contravention of travel restrictions on Americans, using a foreign passport? Whether or not Barack Obama received admissions and financial assistance as a “foreign student,” and why Obama’s Social Security Number appears to have been issued to a long-dead Connecticut man?
If Larry Flynt was a patriot, concened about the country, one would assume that he would want to know if the current holder of the Office of the President is eligible to hold that office or is a Manchurian Candidate being run by handlers who do not wish America well? Isn’t this a much more pressing issue than Romney’s tax returns?
Even assuming Romney is a billionaire – I would much rather have a competent individual with economic expertise and a love for America in the White House over a poseur who seems to have a dodgy history and a dodgy pattern of governing.
Of course, the wheelchair bound Flynt, like most wealthy liberals, is immune from the consequences of Obamacare and most of the other laws Obama might sign into law. If Flynt cares so much for America, let him write a check for $399 million to the United States Treasury.
If Romney’s tax returns are compromised as a consequence of this “stunt,” Larry Flynt should go to jail for aiding and abetting a criminal act.
Reference Links …
Larry Flynt’s X-Rated Plan to Expose Mitt Romney - The Daily Beast
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 01:33 PM PDT
We know that President Obama is a strange duck …
  • A man who managed to get elected in spite of his lack of experience, refusal to provide personal historical data, open ties to communists, socialist training and many other negatives.
  • A man who will do or say anything to gain or maintain political power.
  • Including making bald-faced lies to the American public.
Whoops …

Obama Promises No Vouchers for Medicare . . . But Does it Anyway

One of the promises Obama made in his DNC speech was that he would not ever make Medicare into a voucher program. He said, “I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and the dignity they have earned. Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we’ll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more. And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it, not by turning it over to Wall Street.”
Evidently, when Obama says “never” as in, he will “never” turn Medicare into a voucher, he means “the next day,” because the day after Obama’s speech, the Department of Health and Human Services authorized a pilot “voucher” program that would for now affect about 2 million Medicare recipients. Money would be given to states to pay for private insurance coverage for those who were disabled or who were poor enough to be on both Medicare and Medicaid. These 2 million or so recipients would be booted out of the Medicare program and put on private insurance company policies managed by their respective states and paid for through funds provided by the federal government.
Health and Human Services has accepted applications from 18 different states seeking to participate in this program, and last month, Massachusetts became the first to be approved. States are looking forward to the cost savings supposedly associated with the program. California says it is poised to save $500 million a year.
Something stinks …
So, while Obama continues to claim that Ryan’s plan will gut Medicare and turn it into a “voucher program”, Obama’s the only candidate running who has actually gutted it in order to pay for Obamacare, and now, he appears to be the only candidate that’s “turning Medicare into a voucher” and leaving the poorest seniors at the “mercy of insurance companies.”
Bottom line …
Obama cannot be trusted with our economy: He has decimated our energy production infrastructure while pushing ineffective “green energy” which supplies power at increasingly higher prices. He has not reduced the size of government. He has shown no leadership in restraining Congressional spending. His party refuses to work with the republicans who represent at least 45% or the country.
Obama cannot be trusted with our national defense: He borrows money from China to pour into foreign aid – much of it sent to our enemies and those who do not wish us well. He openly disrespects our allies and flatters our enemies.
Obama cannot be trusted with our healthcare: He has already gutted 716 BILLION from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. He has nationalized healthcare and produced an impenetrable bureaucracy that is responsible only to the Secretary of Health and Human Services who he controls by executive fiat. He has repeatedly lied about reduced healthcare insurance premiums; while everybody gets a higher bill. And now he is lying about vouchers.
Obama cannot be trusted to govern. Throw him out in the upcoming election cycle.
-- steve
Reference Links …
Obama Promises No Vouchers for Medicare . . . But Does it Anyway
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT
Lest we not forget ...
For those of you who enjoy the almost effortless delivery of streaming audio and video content on the Internet  …
Today is a sad day for our nation and it is a shame that very few people know,  according to the FAA investigation, that it is believed that the first man to die at the hands of the 9/11 hijackers was Danny Lewin, an American born in Colorado and brought up in Israel.
Danny was a brilliant computer researcher whose research at MIT resulted in the algorithms for managing internet traffic. His work was the technology behind the company he co-founded,Akamai Technologies (Hawaiian for Smart or clever), one of the least advertised and most successful Internet companies in the world. A company devoted to providing rich content almost effortlessly to thousands of  simultaneously users.
The first man to die …
Danny was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 (inbound from Logan Airport in Boston with hijack group leader Mohammad Atta on board) and the FAA believes that he was the first man killed as he attempted to foil the hijackers.
This was the plane that first hit the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. on that fateful morning. One of the flight attendants managed to communicate with the Airlines base during the hijacking and was able to relay that two flight attendants were stabbed and Danny’s throat was cut while attempting to intervene in the hijacking.
Danny was probably not unaware of the dangers as he sat near Mohammad Atta and possibly in front of another hijacker.
And he was not an ordinary passenger. Along with being a brilliant and rich computer entrepreneur, Danny was also  member of Israel’s elite Sayeret Matkal group in the Israel Defense Force for four years. Same as Benjamin Netanyahu and his brother Yonatan who led the successful raid on Entebbe. And being fluent in Hebrew, English and Arabic, Danny most certainly knew what was being shouted back and forth in the aircraft.
Bottom line …
I could provide further details of the hijacking and recap Danny’s almost magical life, but the bottom line is that he was one of us, a man with a  common touch, willing to talk with anybody about any subject.
It should be noted that this single man contributed more to modern society than all of the religious crazies living in Muslim nations.
If there are any lessons to be learned from Danny’s death, they are:
one, life is fragile -- no matter how smart, wealthy or well-connected you might at any time be the victim of circumstance;
two, there exists in this world, hundreds of thousands of religious crazies who are willing to trade their lives to cause suffering, death and destruction to those whom they believe are their religious and ideological enemies; and
three, the government’s bureacracy is often so slow, inefficient and wound up in turf and budget wars that they can hardly connect the dots – and when they do – are afraid to take decisive action. Not always, but enough to be troublesome to ordinary Americans.
Had any of these people had access to atomic weaponry, destroying New York, Chicago or Los Angeles would not bring a second thought.
Danny led the way – fighting against a clearly defined enemy.
Do not let the far-left liberals in our government convince you otherwise: unless Islam is reformed it represents a clear and present danger to both America and the non-Muslim world.
We need to elect leaders and keep our eyes open from those who pretend they are friends of the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan both come immediately to mind. There are no moderate Muslims – and if there are, they are ineffective in controlling the crazies among them.
We need to understand that our Constitution is not a suicide pact – and that we can take decisive action against religious threats as if they were any other enemy combatant.
“Vigilance and Peace Through Strength” are concepts that are not well understood by the democrat party and its far-left liberal Marxist infiltrators.
Unfortunately, I am not even sure that we can depend on the President of the United States, Barack Obama, and his fellow travelers to protect America from its enemies both foreign and domestic.
Now is the time to honor both nations dear to Danny: America and Israel. It is what he would have wanted and what he died fighting for.
Rest in Peace Danny
Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT
                E pluribus unum …
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              Out of many, one!

Whatever political differences Americans may have, whatever color, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or political party – we will stand up to terrorism with one will, with one voice and we will rain hell down upon you – no matter how long it takes to bring you to justice.
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And to the Saudi Royal Family, there will come a day when your involvement and complicity in 9/11 will become known – and you will face justice before both man and God.
From Investor’s Business Daily …
Unanswered: What Was Saudis' Role?
9/11: A new report revealing the hijackers met in Florida with a well-connected Saudi family who fled to Riyadh just days before the attacks raises fresh concerns about the Saudis' role in the plot.
The Saudi hijackers who entered the country from San Diego also met with Saudi handlers. So now we know al-Qaida had Saudi help from coast to coast. According to the Miami Herald, investigators believe the wealthy family at a minimum knew of their guests' evil plans, and possibly aided them.
Just two weeks before 9/11, and after meetings and calls with ringleader Mohamed Atta and other hijackers, the Saudi nationals abandoned three cars, including a new Chrysler PT Cruiser, in the garage and driveway of their Sarasota home. In their haste to leave the country, they also left behind opulent furniture. A safe, however, was cleaned out. They also took a computer.
Their Sarasota home was owned by Esam Ghazzawi, a Saudi financier. He'd been on an FBI watch list for terror-fundraising. The FBI, however, never briefed the 9/11 Commission about his and the other Saudi occupants' connections to the hijackers. Congress also was left in the dark about the house search.
It's one of many mysteries surrounding the Saudis and 9/11. Other questions still unanswered after 10 years:
• Why was the section of Congress' Joint Inquiry into9/11 dealing with "sources of foreign support for some of the Sept. 11 hijackers" kept secret from the public on the orders of President Bush?
Almost 27 full pages were blanked out — an amount equal to the entire U.S. Constitution. The section, which remains sealed, reportedly quotes from a CIA memo that concludes there's "incontrovertible evidence" that Saudi government officials supported the hijackers. Why the cover-up?
• And why were the first two hijackers who entered the country received by a Saudi government agent who secured and paid for their housing and arranged flight lessons? Was he acting on his own, or on official orders? Was he, as some investigators suspect, part of an advance team sent by the Saudi consulate to meet the hijackers as they arrived in Los Angeles?
• Was it coincidence or something more that the Saudi agent's salary was increased while settling the hijackers in San Diego? Or that he was able to tap into a $130,000 "welfare" account funded by the kingdom's ambassador to the U.S.? Was money funneled through official Saudi channels to the hijackers?
• Was another Saudi agent from New Jersey, who handled the hijackers on the East Coast, also tasked by the Saudi government?
• Who ordered the massive post-9/11 evacuation of Saudi VIPs — including two dozen bin Ladens, at least one of whom had an open terror file at the FBI — without proper investigations? Why was such a request granted, given the Saudi nationality of 15 hijackers?
• Did Saudi envoy Prince Bandar make the request while he and Bush shared cigars on the Truman Balcony of the White House on Sept. 13, 2001? Did Bush's father or James Baker, who on Sept. 10 had attended a Carlyle Group conference in Washington with bin Laden's brother, intervene? What about Bandar's old racquetball partner Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose wife once received a Jaguar as a Bandar gift?
• Similarly, why was the Saudi minister of mosquesallowed to escape interrogation after feigning a heart attack when FBI agents learned he'd left his Washington hotel to check into the same budget hotel near Dulles airport as the hijackers the night before they attacked the Pentagon?
• Why was an arrest warrant for the hijackers' confidante, Anwar Awlaki — who'd worked for the Saudi Embassy as a lecturer and hajj tour guide — suddenly pulled back the day before he re-entered the U.S. on a Saudi airliner? Why was this dangerous al-Qaida recruiter allowed to leave the country for good?
• Why was the Pentagon attack staged out of a mosque built by the Saudi Embassy? The fax number to the D.C. mosque, where Awlaki preached and the hijackers worshiped, turned up in a key 9/11planner's German flat.
If there are simple answers to these questions, let's hear them. Enough censorship by Washington. The American people deserve to know the full extent of Saudi Arabia's role in helping the hijackers. <Source>
Muslims are not Americans ...
As long as domestic Muslims believe that Sharia Law should replace our Constitution, as long as Muslims believe that there should be no separation between "Church and State," and as long as Muslims try to use our First Amendment to push their own toxic agenda, they may be present in the United States, they may be citizens, but they are NOT Americans.
Bottom line …
The truth will eventually come out – even if high-level United States officials aided and abetted a cover-up.
Meanwhile, let us honor the innocent dead and the brave first responders who ran into doomed buildings, those that rescued the living from the Pentagon – and the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 who deliberately crashed the aircraft to thwart the terrorist attack.
Let us remember the survivors whose incalculable loss can never be remedied.
And let us pledge to turn the next state sponsor of terror into a sea of glass.
And do not forget, it was President Barack Hussein Obama who bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. It was President Barack Hussein Obama who claims to be a Christian, but quotes the "Holy Quran" at every opportunity. It is Barack Hussein Obama, who was originally trained as a Muslim, who openly insulted the Israeli Prime Minister -- both to his face and behind his back. And it is Barack Hussein Obama who refuses to divulge his passport, social security number and school records that many believe shows him enrolled as a foreign student and receiving aid as a foreign student. And it was Barack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) who suggested that Israel pull back her borders, a move which would leave her virtually undefensible -- while not demanding that the Palestinians stop lobbying daily rockets into civilian populations or using hospitals and Mosques as military bases.
So when it comes to the 2012 election, let us remember both our enemies and that Barack Hussein Obama may not have America's best interests at heart if he should be re-elected to another term.
-- steve

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