Monday, June 16, 2014

WTF: WHY MUNICIPALITIES ARE GOING BROKE PROOF? IN PELOSI'S SAN FRANCISCO, GAY IS NOT ABOUT EQUALITY, IT'S ABOUT PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST POLITICS PROTECTING THE THE QUEEN "B," HILLARY CLINTON, FROM BENGHAZI AND DERELICTION OF DUTY CHARGES...

One Citizen Speaking...

Posted: 15 Jun 2014 10:10 PM PDT

Remember those shovel-ready projects that weren’t quite shovel ready?

To clear my head, I am prone to take walks in my neighborhood which provides me with the unparalleled opportunity to check our the landscaping and the surrounding streets. So I was surprised to find out that my residential street will be temporarily closed while they grind down the surface and then repave with “Coldmill and Asphalt Hot Mix” in high-traffic areas and a “standard asphalt mix in cul de sac areas.”

While roadways degrade over time, especially those in high traffic areas, I saw no obvious signs of road deterioration. So I asked one of the workers what was going on. His reply is the reason for this blog.

First, he assured me that the funds for the repave did not come out of the city’s funds and that the work was part of a state and federal funding program. As if I did not also pay state and federal taxes.

Second, he told me if the funds were not used, they would be gone forever and there was no telling when such funding might become available again.

And third, and perhaps most troubling, if those funds were not fully used, the next funds allocation was likely to be reduced. Something that made absolutely no sense as I would assume that road conditions would determine the necessity for fund allocations, not some formula based on previous funds allocations.

Pretty much the reason why our cities, counties, states, and the federal government is deep in debt. It is incumbent on the politicians to keep unionized workers working and making benefit and healthcare payments to the union leadership lest they be denied union campaign funds and voter support in the next election cycle.

The fact that budgeted funds must be fully spent – whether on critical infrastructure that is in serious need of repair or replacement, or make-work projects, seems to be the government’s modus operandi at all levels.

Bottom line …

Until we can remove unionized personnel, political corruption, and make-work projects out of our budgets, we are doomed to an upward spiral of costs and a downward spiral of critical infrastructure.

Here in California, Governor Jerry Brown is pushing his “crazy train,” a not-so high-speed rail project that goes nowhere important, but sucks up nearly a trillion dollars over its lifetime – with much of that going to the special interests, consultants, and union-connected projects. The train will never pay for itself and is mostly part of the progressive socialist democrat pipe dream of forcing people out of their cars and into high-rises locate near their workplace – in the best tradition of Mother Russia.

Heaven forbid we should use this money to improve our critical water facilities that are crumbling with old age – many of which cross major fault lines – or repair our aging and inadequate electricity grid. Or, alternatively, build-out municipal broadband facilities that can be leased to communications providers and which will lower content delivery costs.

Time to keep a sharp eye on our corrupt politicians and their special interests. And, the best way to eliminate government waste, fraud and abuse is to remove the progressive socialist democrats like Governor Jerry Brown and replace them with moderate conservatives like Neel Kashkari. Kashkari, who is a minority, a man who voted for Obama, and presided over the Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP) is a fiscal conservative and has promised to kill Jerry Brown’s crazy train. Good enough for me.

-- steve

PROOF? IN PELOSI'S SAN FRANCISCO, GAY IS NOT ABOUT EQUALITY, IT'S ABOUT PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST POLITICS

Posted: 15 Jun 2014 06:16 PM PDT

They, the LGBT activists, want to be welcome everywhere, but yet they deny the same equality to others as they fete a traitor to America. This is little more than radical socialist politics at work.

National Guard Not Welcome This Time At San Francisco LGBT Pride Weekend; Chelsea Manning Is
Organizers of San Francisco’s pride weekend festivities have yanked the welcome mat away from the National Guard, voting to ban the Guard from setting up a booth at the festival.
The decision comes at the same time Pride organizers are allowing a controversial Army private who leaked military secrets to be honorary grand marshal.
The board of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee rejected a request from the Guard to set up an informational booth at Civic Center Plaza during Pride Weekend. Last year, the National Guard had a booth at Pride Weekend for the first time – staffed by gay soldiers – following the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.
The military’s current ban on transgender service members serving openly, minority recruitment tactics, and sexual assault scandals were factors in the board’s decision, Pride Executive Director George Ridgely told LGBT news weekly Bay Area Reporter.
Manning, who now goes by the name Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, is again invited to be honorary grand marshal in this year’s parade.She was convicted last year of violating the Espionage Act for releasing classified military documents and sentenced to 35 years confinement, with a possible parole release in eight years. Source: National Guard Not Welcome This Time At San Francisco LGBT Pride Weekend; Chelsea Manning Is « CBS San Francisco

Eight years for selling out your nation? Something is definitively wrong in America.

Bottom line …

The LGBT community wants to be openly accepted by the military, yet the deny the California National Guard a booth and openly offer a convicted traitor the chance to be the “grand marshal” How very politically correct, anti-America, multi-cultural, and morally equivalent to honor a traitor – you can only find this radicalism in the circles of progressive socialist democrats.

We need to remove progressive socialist democrats from the House, the Senate, and the Presidency.

-- steve

PROTECTING THE THE QUEEN "B," HILLARY CLINTON, FROM BENGHAZI AND DERELICTION OF DUTY CHARGES

Posted: 14 Jun 2014 03:39 PM PDT

The last thing Hillary Clinton and her cadre of progressive socialist democrats want is for the truth to emerge on the terrorist attack on Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11 …

We know that the facility under attack was not a State Department “embassy” or a “consulate,” as portrayed in the media, so what was it and what was its purpose? Was it, as many have alleged, a joint CIA-State Department compound dedicated to securing military-grade weapons that were floating loose in Libya and were being collected and re-purposed via illegal arms shipments through Turkey to radical Islamic terrorists and jihadists who were fighting in Syria?
Why was Ambassador Stevens present in the compound and why was his last appointment with the Turkish Ambassador prior to the attack?
Why were no upgraded security precautions implemented after a specific request by Ambassador Stevens? Could it be because President Obama formally declared the al Qaeda was defeated and on the run in the days leading up to the presidential election and that the truth could point out glaring discrepancies in Obama’s public statements? Or even worse, call attention to the illegal (without Congressional Authorization) act of war perpetrated by the Obama Administration on Libya and the failure of Obama’s foreign policy in Libya?
Why were security precautions not tightened across the region on the anniversary of9/11, a symbolic day for a terrorist attack.
Why has the autopsy results on Ambassador Stevens never released? Could it be because he was sodomized and his body mutilated by his attackers as many have alleged?
Did Hillary Clinton concoct the “spontaneous protest over a video” story and convey it to the White House? Did National Security Adviser (Media) Ben Rhodes, brother of CBS President David Rhodes, craft the talking points for the White House – sending the President, Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice on a media circus to lie to the American people? Or, in the words of Ben Rhodes, “To underscore that these protests are rooted in and Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.”

Princess Pelosi moves to protect the Queen “B” …

Clinton allies pressured Dems on Benghazi
Hillary Clinton’s world was so worried about a Republican investigation of the Benghazi attacks, they sent a message to House Democrats: We need backup.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) publicly considered boycotting the panel, an idea that Clinton supporters feared would leave the potential 2016 candidate exposed to the enemy fire of House Republicans.
So Clinton emissaries launched a back channel campaign, contacting several House Democratic lawmakers and aides to say they’d prefer Democrats participate, according to sources familiar with the conversations. Pelosi’s staff said they have not heard from Clinton’s camp.
On Wednesday, Pelosi appointed five Democrats to the committee, giving Democrats another crucial mission in the months ahead of what was already a tough election year: act as Clinton’s first line of defense.
Source: Clinton allies pressured Dems on Benghazi - Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer - POLITICO.com

And, it is no coincidence that Princess Pelosi picked the most radical and vocal of the progressive socialist democrats, including:

Elijah Cummings (D-MD) who suggested that everything is known about Benghazi and this is a political stunt.Cummings is quoted as saying, “I’m looking for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Whatever that is,” he said. “But you gotta keep in mind, you cannot disregard what we have seen, and that is allegations being made unfairly and in many instances untruthfully, and then there’s a search for the facts to back them up. So what that does is it puts us in a situation where it’s very difficult to have trust.”
Adam Smith (D-WA), who said, “Republicans in Congress have turned the death of an ambassador and three other Americans into a political witch hunt. For nearly eight months, we have watched Republicans desperately and obsessively search for a scandal, which has not appeared”
Adam B. Schiff (D-CA) who said, “We’ve had four bipartisan investigations already. I don’t think it makes sense, really, for Democrats to participate…I think it’s just a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources.”
Linda T. Sanchez (D-CA) who said, “Although I am disheartened that we are putting the families affected by this tragedy through this partisan exercise, I am committed to looking at the evidence and making decisions based on what that evidence shows.” And threw in a partisan jab for good effect, ““Leaving politics out of the room is going to be a challenge for this committee, but our responsibility to the American people is to carefully analyze the facts, and not just make up allegations. I hope my Republican colleagues will adhere to the same principles.”
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) who said, “I want to make sure that no American diplomat, no American life, no American service member is ever put in the same kind of jeopardy where we don’t have the resources there to protect them as they carry out this nation’s business around the world.”

In Hillary’s own words …

In her widely-hyped interview with ABC’s Diana Sawyer, Clinton attempted to absolve herself from any culpability by citing an extremely flawed, partisan, and “internal” investigation.

"As the independent board that investigated every aspect of this, including all the cables, concluded, there was a lack of appreciation and response to the level of threat. ... That was never brought to me ... What I did was give very direct instructions that the people who have the expertise and experience in security. ... That is personal though, Diane. And, I mean, I'm not equipped to sit and look at blueprints, to determine where the blast walls need to be or where the reinforcements need to be. That’s why we hire people who have that expertise. ... But that doesn't mean I wasn't saying all the time, "We've gotta make sure we secure this spot and that spot."

But the truth is that the board was not independent and failed miserably in their investigation …

The Accountability Review Board (ARB) was convened by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to lead an official investigation into the Benghazi and to review the circumstances surrounding the attacks and its aftermath. The ARB did not interview critical on-the-ground witnesses nor did they interview Hillary Clinton to determine what she knew and when she knew it. Especially when Hillary Clinton knew that this was not a spontaneous protest over a video, but a full-fledged terrorist attack – but lied to the American public nevertheless.

Even worse, we are now learning that the CIA and/or NSA intercepted calls using the compound’s telephones from the terrorists to their leadership. And, that an aircraft was standing-by in Germany and could have proceeded with a rescue attempt within four hours rather than an after the fact recovery of bodies.

Bottom line …

Hillary Clinton is a corrupt, conniving, liar whose previous scandals makes her unfit for public office let alone the presidency of the United States. In my opinion, it is possible that Hillary Clinton is simply fundraising and will sit out the election to become the nation’s important progressive socialist democrat “kingmaker.”

This is the type of choreographed “Clintonian” effort that sees limted media access, softball interviews, and numerous progressive pundits like Lanny Davis continuing to defend the indefensible. Backroom deals and black money may be washing through the campaign as we speak. And, as we have seen before, I would not be surprised to see Chinese and Arab money being channeled through opaque PACs into the Clinton campaign – or non-campaign at this point in time -- as the progressive socialist democrats illegally target conservative fundraising using the IRS.

As we have seen over the past years and months, the progressive socialist democrats cannot be trusted with foreign or domestic policy and appear to be a fifth column trying to destroy America from within. The only truth that they acknowledge is the truth which they themselves manufacture to fit the occasion – and when the lies are revealed, they cry “It’s old news” and “What does it matter?”

Good people know the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, and black and white. The progressive socialist democrats use Orwellian political-speak to turn everything upside down and inside out to pursue their not so hidden agenda.

Throw these bastards out of office. Do not elect progressive socialist democrats to the House, the Senate, the Presidency, or any other local, state, or federal office unless you agree with the destruction of our nation and our people from within.

-- steve