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Eric Holder when asked a hypothetical question about a proposed hate crimes bill was told that ministers and whites will not be protected. He went on to say that only traditional victims would be covered.
In other words, it has nothing to do with hate but providing extra laws for special classes of people. I have already explained countless times that if a crime is a crime the person who commits the crime should be prosecuted fully. It doesn't matter what the person was feeling towards the victim, it's still wrong. It's similar to thought crimes at that point.
Jeff Sessions on the the judiciary committee asked Holder if a minister who talks from the Bible about homosexuality and is then attacked by a homosexual activist for these words, would the minister be covered? The answer as previously noted was that ministers and whites would not be covered. Can whites or ministers not be hated? It sure doesn't seem that way to me. If this doesn't tell you that the law has nothing to do with hate than nothing will.
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Taxpayer-funded trips abroad by U.S. Congressmen has risen ten-fold since 1995. From the legitimate trips to war zones, to the questionable trips to exotic places like the Galapagos Islands, Congressional travel is literally soaring in recent years.
While the Obama administration brow beats American citizens about saving money in these tough economic times, they seem to believe that elected government officials do not play by the same rules. This is nothing new, as elected officials do not use Social Security for their retirement like every other American, but rather a private plan more suitable to elected royalty. Their is a double standard when it comes to America's elected officials. From Obama's czars to congress, elected and appointed officials live high on the hog, while the source of their income (the American citizen) is bent over and made to pay for their lavish lifestyles.
Hundreds of lawmakers travelled abroad in 2008 on the taxpayer's dime, totally $13 million dollars. That figure is bad enough, but it is not the most shocking statistic. Unbelievably, that $13 million represents a 50% increase in congressional travel since the Democrats took control of congress two years ago. These self-important Democrats will claim…
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has obtained an EPA study of the "endangerment" to human well-being ostensibly caused by carbon dioxide emissions, together with a set of EPA emails indicating that the study, which concludes that carbon dioxide is not a significant cause of climate change, was suppressed by the EPA for political reasons.
You can read the comments that the CEI submitted to the EPA on EPA's proposed endangerment finding here, along with the emails. The censored report, by Alan Carlin and John Davidson, is here.
In their report, Carlin and Davidson point out that the EPA has not done its own evaluation of the global warming theory. Rather, it has relied on analyses by others, mostly the U.N.'s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. That report, however, was a political document, not a scientific one. Knowing that current scientific research disproves the anthropogenic global warming theory, the U.N. ordered that no recent research be considered in the IPCC report. This is a scandal of which too few people are aware. As science, the U.N. report is a bad joke.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader.
"Hussein believed that Iraq could not appear weak to its enemies, especially Iran," FBI special agent George Piro wrote on notes of a conversation with Saddam in June 2004 about weapons of mass destruction.
He believed Iraq was being threatened by others in the region and must appear able to defend itself, the report said.
The FBI reports, released on Wednesday, said Saddam asserted that he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq's weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for blocking the return of UN weapons inspectors who were searching for WMD.
"In his opinion, the UN inspectors would have directly identified to the Iranians where to inflict maximum damage to Iraq," according to the documents obtained and released by the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental research institute.
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President Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office with a veritable halo over his head. In the eyes of his backers, he could say or do no wrong because he had evidently descended directly from heaven to return celestial order to our fallen world. Oprah declared his tongue to be "dipped in the unvarnished truth." Newsweek editor Evan Thomas averred that Obama "stands above the country and above the world as a sort of a God."
But when it comes to health care reform, with every passing day, Obama seems less God and more demagogue, uttering not transcendental truths, but bald-faced lies. Here are the top five lies that His Awesomeness has told–the first two for no reason other than to get elected and the next three to sell socialized medicine to a wary nation.
The list of LIES
May 11. 2009
by: michael j rhodente
Well, every since the information dump from the White House on Friday, when we were given the results of the in house "investigation" on the flyover of Lower Manhattan by Air Force one, something tells me that story just does not make sense. I have a few unanswered questions that as a taxpayer, I'd like to have answered.
Sure, we got a White house Aides head on a platter, and a low quality photo of Air Force one above the Statue of Liberty, pretty slim considering this Administration is touted for it's transparency and intellect.
I also believe there are more important issues to be attending to, but this is yet another example of the way anything inconvenient gets handled by Obama, and most noticeably, the MSM. But then, they've been part of the orchestrated messaging coming out of the White House.
I don't think there is any reason to call for Congressional investigations, they can't handle the job they have at hand, and I don't think they would find any wrongdoing on the part of President Obama. The MSM is surely not going to investigate, nothing but fawning coverage, and anyway, some may be looking for employment in this administration.
Funny thing is, looking at the big picture, this is typical for Obama and his Administration "never let a crisis go to waste" and they never take the blame for anything negative. They've done what they wanted, caught the flack, ran the damage control, come up with a lame excuse, and then tossed the ball to the compliant MSM. all that's left for them to do is sit back and have a laugh at the conspiracy theorists and "right wing extremists" who are twisting and turning. We've seen this many times.
So, I want to play twenty questions with the Obama Administration, and the Investigative Journalists at the MSM. Let's see this cleared up, so what if it's a $350,000 joyride, let's get the real story out there and put this behind us, you know, for the good of the Country, and the reputation of the MSM. I'm just a country boy, and part time blogger, but like Joe the plumber, I've got questions.
1. is the picture released by the White House all there is? looks pretty lame, and how come there is no Exif (Exchangeable image file format) data?
2. is the picture a photoshop? I tweaked and prodded, zoomed 800% on the photo, and I can't tell. The declination and azimuth look about right for the sunshine and shadow on the plane, and perhaps AF1 is above the haze.
3. and while you're zoomed in on the photo, why are there no photos or interviews with the hundreds of folks on Liberty Island and the ferry boat? tourists have cameras, and opinions.
4. we know Air Force one, (properly called VC25, when the President is not on board), buzzed Lower Manhattan at about 10:30 AM on Monday, April 27, where are the flight manifests?
5. it takes a lot of support personel to make a AF1 flight happen, who was the pilot and co-pilot, flight crew, and ground crew?
6. where is the White House paperwork and e-mails? Who signed off on the mission at Andrews Air Force Base?
7. and how about the manifests on the F16 Fighter escorts?
8. was the F16 escort with the red tail fin following AF1 from the Air National Guard?
9. are the only F16 fighters with red tail fins part of the 187th Fighter Wing of the Alabama Air National Guard?
10. beings how the F16 with the red tail fin is following in close formation with AF1, could it be in fact, part of the "photo op" mission"?
11. could the "photo op" involve George Lucas new film "Red Tail" about the Tuskegee Airmen?
12. could George Lucas campaign contributions have bought him access? and this mission, as "payback"?
13. were any of the Tuskegee Airmen on board AF1 during the flyover? I think that would have been the only admirable part of the whole mission, btw.
14. and how about the White House statement of Friday referring to "approaches and landings" at Atlantic City International Airport? no curiosity? c'mon. Atlantic City?
15. have any Investigative Journalists parachuted into Atlantic City to see what was going on that weekend? this could be news.
16. how about the logistics? between Andrews AFB (ADW), the flyover near Kennedy International (JFK) Newark and LaGuardia? add "approaches and landings" at Atlantic City International (ACY) and one or more F16's, that if Alabama National Guard, are based at Montgomery Regional (MGM). and nobody saw nothing?
17. back to the White House, it defies logic that an Aid, Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, , could or would put this mission together without direction from Obama or his Senior Staff. when the President is flying, both AF1's normally take to the air for security reasons, what if the President wanted to fly that day?
18. wouldn't Rahm Emanuel be the likely choice to dictate this mission?
19. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, pressed by reporters, said he had seen news reports of the flyover, but declared: "I was working on other things. You might be surprised to know that I don't know every movement of Air Force one." do you believe that?
20. on Tuesday, Obama told reporters, "It was a mistake. It was something we found out about along with all of you. And it will not happen again." do you believe all three parts of that statement? or is there a lie, carefully placed between two truths?
Ya know, I don't so much fault the Obama Administration for putting together a photo op, joy ride, or what the Air Force provided, a secret military mission, with Air Force one and two F16 Fighters. The problem is with the panic and mayhem they caused in Lower Manhattan of all places, and the non-investigation by the Mainstream Media Journalists, But most of all, the casual, condescending denials from the very folks that would make this happen.
Hope and Change, who wants to buy a bridge?
Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" and did a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Sunday at the age of 62.
"Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning" in New York City, said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found. "He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years."
"The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives", Mohandas Gandhi
