A CLEARLY ILLEGAL ACT

For the first time, the President has his hands tied to a clearly illegal act. The abrupt and suspect termination of Inspector General Walpin, as it was conducted by the President and his staff, violates the provisions of the Inspector General Act that Obama himself voted for while he was Senator Obama! In this he has outdone John Kerry who voted "for the war in Iraq before he voted against it." The magnitude of this folly---or more likely, breathtaking arrogance and disregard for the law and/or anything that happened preceding his election to the Presidency is truly beyond anything we have seen any President do since Nixon. Among other things, President Obama violated the notice (advise and consent) requirements to Congress and the statutorily required time line. Even top Democrats have concluded the President violated the law.

So what happens next? It's likely Obama will 'seek forgiveness' since he did not 'ask permission', so to speak. He will try to do this privately with the Majority, and will ignore Republicans, if he can. Speaking of Republicans, this is an issue they can run with, if they but will. The appearances, Mayor Johnson being a prime supporter of the President, should enable them to score heavily against the Administration, if they but will. But will they?

Imagine this for a moment...

"President Bush today fired Inspector General Walpin over his handling of an AmeriCorps investigation, which investigation revealed that Bush's supporter, Mayor Johnson, misspent federal funds and was forced, including personally, to pay back hundreds of thousands of misspent dollars. Bush's action is in violation of the Inspector General Act..."

What do you think would be happening if the above scenario had occurred? One word sums it up:

IMPEACHMENT!

Submerged in all this is this question, which is material:

Even if, as alleged, Inspector General Walpin DID mishandle the investigation, grandstand to the media, and royally tick off the U.S. Attorney---is Walpin right in his conclusions?

The answer: obviously he is, as money has been paid back, including by the Mayor himself. The only reason Mayor Johnson is not being prosecuted is that the U.S. Attorney himself is making political points by NOT prosecuting the case---all the more to spike the ball with the IG and support the President's "case".

And does anyone doubt that President Obama's hand was in this BEFORE it came to light? Can you say "obstruction of justice"?

OK, Congress and especially 'Pubbies!---here is your chance to begin to redeem yourselves with the public and stand on the principle that we are a nation of laws, not a proto-fascist state- a kakistocracy, where the worst lead, and no man is safe in the law.

What will it be?

UIGHURS: Frolic at our expense

Why did Bermuda go behind Britain's back to make a secret deal with to accept the "Bermuda Four" Uighurs? The U.S. freely admits it kept the deal secret until it was done to "avoid opposition"! And this isn't even questioned! Imagine, what would break loose if the BUSH administration...

An exclusive photo of the Uighurs, as provided by Rushan Abbas. From L to R: Salahidin Abdulahad, Ablikim Turahun, lawyers Sabin Willett and Susan Baker Manning, Khalil Manut, and Abdulla Abdulqadir.

The Bottom Line

In case you haven't picked up on it, this all is an extension of the 'big lie' tactic---writ VERY large and growing, to whit:

If you do so much, so wrong, so fast and so often, no one can keep up, much less think about WHY it happened and, as Lenin famously posited:

" Kto Kogo?"= "Who gains"?

Who, Indeed?

M.C.

How Far We Have Fallen

Ah, the poor Palin clan. Target for every lunacy the fascist left can throw at them- including infamously limelighting the (statutory or otherwise) fantasy rape of one daughter or another. Under pressure, Letterman gave a non-apology. He REALLY was referring not to 14 year old Willow, but 18 year old Bristol. As if that made everything alright.

This is bad enough, but, what follows is worse.

Kathleen Parker, once a reliable fount of common sense, seems to have totally lost her moral bearings in the Obamanation. A few days ago she wrote a column that seemed to start out condemning Letterman's shtick. However, after a few lines, she matched his 'non-apology' with her 'non-condemnation.' She chided that we all need to remember that Letterman is a comedian (really?) and he was just doing what comedians do, after all---he just took it a step too far. And woe be to us, let's just stay away from censorship! After all, he was just taking two seemingly unassociated things ("as comedians often do") and putting them together for comic relief.

Sure. Right. Uh Huh.

Realizing , perhaps innately, that SHE was going too far, she was moved at one point to declaim (after pointing out that Bristol and Willow where being put "out there" by Governor Palin) that she was NOT saying they (Palins) "asked for it" (as in "rape victims are asking for it).

What intellectual poverty. What lack of common sense- and sensibility.

How sad...Kathleen Parker, a mainstream journalist, basically saying it's ok to have "humor" like this, on national television. Once upon a time, no one would even hint about a child being raped in front of her mother, at a baseball game, by a player---or even about a governor having a "slutty stewardess look"---I wonder how stewardesses feel about that?

Kathleen didn't say. Just another day in 2009 America.



M.C.

EMPIRICAL PROOF OF LIBERAL/PRO-OBAMA MEDIA BIAS (among other things such as protofascism, rigging the market and classic self-dealing)

As if any additional proof was needed! However, consider the following:

Case 1: Bill Clinton demands and receives the resignation of all Federal District Attorneys. The 'Big Media' sees nothing irregular in this. After all , the President has a right to pick his team, right? Of course, law enforcement officers, and especially officers of the court, are supposed to be impartial and apolitical, not on any 'side' or 'team'.

Fast forward to the Bush Administration and the AG Gonzalez scandal. Remember the uproar (and subsequent resignation of AG Gonzalez) when it was alleged that there might have been 'political' reasons for the requests for resignations from the DAs? Of course, Clinton was smarter than Bush in requiring ALL the attorneys to resign en masse. (Democrats are better than the Republicans in wielding the levers of power, remember?)




Now, Obama is reported to be closing auto dealerships based on political affiliation, i.e., REPUBLICAN dealerships are being closed. And there is no general uproar.

Draw your own conclusions.

Obama and his ilk are worthy of the Kingfisher (Huey Long, former governor of Louisiana)---or either Mayor Daley.

Liberal fascism is closer than you think- it's here! The news outlets report it every day- and of great concern, most don't give it a second thought.

Speaking of 'giving it a thought'= aside for the overt corruption of closing dealers on a partisan basis, might Obama Inc., who now owns a majority of GM, be shortcutting potential competition as well. Triangulation at its 'finest'!


M.C.

THEY EAT THEIR OWN

To Ted Rall's credit! He is sounding an alarm that we all should listen to, so as not to later wonder "for whom the bell tolls".

M.C.


Ted Rall: It’s increasingly evident that Obama should resign

THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER

Posted May 29, 2009 @ 12:02 AM

MIAMI — We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.

From health care to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn’t have the nerve to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?

Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now — before he drags us further into the abyss.

I refer here to Obama’s plan for “preventive detentions.” If a cop or other government official thinks you might want to commit a crime someday, you could be held in “prolonged detention.” Reports in U.S. state-controlled media imply that Obama’s shocking new policy would only apply to Islamic terrorists (or, in this case, wannabe Islamic terrorists, and also kinda-sorta-maybe-thinking-about-terrorism dudes). As if that made it OK.
In practice, Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street.

Preventive detention is the classic defining characteristic of a military dictatorship. Because dictatorial regimes rely on fear rather than consensus, their priority is self-preservation rather than improving their people’s lives. They worry obsessively over the one thing they can’t control, what George Orwell called “thoughtcrime” — contempt for rulers that might someday translate to direct action.

Locking up people who haven’t done anything wrong is worse than un-American and a violent attack on the most basic principles of Western jurisprudence. It is contrary to the most essential notion of human decency. That anyone has ever been subjected to “preventive detention” is an outrage. That the president of the United States, a man who won an election because he promised to elevate our moral and political discourse, would even entertain such a revolting idea offends the idea of civilization itself.

Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him. Unlike the Republicans who backed George W. Bush, I won’t follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him. Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.
“Prolonged detention,” reported The New York Times, would be inflicted upon “terrorism suspects who cannot be tried.”

“Cannot be tried.” Interesting choice of words.

Any “terrorism suspect” (can you be a suspect if you haven’t been charged with a crime?) can be tried. Anyone can be tried for anything. At this writing, a Somali child is sitting in a prison in New York, charged with piracy in the Indian Ocean, where the U.S. has no jurisdiction. Anyone can be tried.

What they mean, of course, is that the hundreds of men and boys languishing at Guantánamo and the thousands of “detainees” the Obama administration anticipates kidnapping in the future cannot be convicted. As in the old Soviet Union, putting enemies of the state on trial isn’t enough. The game has to be fixed. Conviction has to be a foregone conclusion.

Why is it, exactly, that some prisoners “cannot be tried”?

The Old Grey Lady explains why Obama wants this “entirely new chapter in American law” in a boring little sentence buried a couple of paragraphs past the jump and a couple of hundred words down page A16: “Yet another question is what to do with the most problematic group of Guantánamo detainees: those who pose a national security threat but cannot be prosecuted, either for lack of evidence or because evidence is tainted.”

In democracies with functioning legal systems, it is assumed that people against whom there is a “lack of evidence” are innocent. They walk free. In countries where the rule of law prevails, in places blessedly free of fearful leaders whose only concern is staying in power, “tainted evidence” is no evidence at all. If you can’t prove that a defendant committed a crime — an actual crime, not a thoughtcrime — in a fair trial, you release him and apologize to the judge and jury for wasting their time.

It is amazing and incredible, after eight years of Bush’s lawless behavior, to have to still have to explain these things. For that reason alone, Obama should resign.

Ted Rall is a columnist for Universal Press Syndicate.

AND NOW A FEW WORDS FROM...

PRAVDA! If you doubt that our country has made a radical and regrettable change, read on.

Wise and bitterly strong words from our former deadly enemy, which escaped the bondage we are descending into.

As Russians would say, we have become 'nekulturny'- that is, uncultured. We are losing our cultural, political and societal culture.

Title: American capitalism gone with a whimper

Front page / Opinion / Columnists
27.04.2009
Source: Pravda.Ru

Pages: 12

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too.

Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin
The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina
Pravda.ru forum. The place where truth hurts

SOTOMAYOR SAMBA and KOREAN KRUNCH

Sources allege Sotomayor has made racist remarks. Based on press reports, she has stated Hispanics (and other minorities) make better judgements (as in, the judicial due process) than white (males). Some groups are livid ,as they should be,while others make little or nothing of her comments, which were delivered at a "La Raza" (which translated, means, "The Race") meeting.

What's the litmus test here? Very simply put, if Obama's nominee was a white male, who said that whites make superior judgements as compared to Hispanics or other minorities, and these remarks were made before the "The White Race Club"---would that be (construed as) racist or evidence of racism?

You know the answer. And you also know there is a double standard at work---which is in and of itself proof of racism (or as some might say, 'reverse racism').

In any case, if as AG Eric Holder said, we are cowards when it comes to racial issues, then let's take his cue, and stop being cowards.

Racism is WRONG.

Right is right, wrong is WRONG.

Any individual holding and expressing views that reasonably can be classified as racist is NOT qualified to sit on the highest court of the land. Or any court, for that matter. As they say in judicial circles: RES IPSA LOQUITUR- "THE THING SPEAKS FOR ITSELF".

It's time for the double standard to stop. Racism is objective, not subjective. Let's let this be the first step in putting this behind us. No more cowards. And no more racism.

Meanwhile- North Korea festers and becomes ever more bellicose. Let's hope someone on our side is taking it seriously. More as the events unfold.

Pray for peace.

M.C.

REPUBLICAN LAPDOGS

The President has nominated Judge Sotomayor to replace Souter. She has been overruled by the USSC numerous times. She is adjudged by almost everyone as a VERY liberal judge. And the 'Pubbies say---no filibuster!

Democrats know how to wield power, the Republicans never seem to learn the lesson.

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin---Thou are weighed in the balance and are found wanting.

Republicans should STAND- FIGHT -WIN, as they seek and cultivate the natural allies they have in conservative republicans.

Alas, if it could be so.

M.C.