According to D.C. Insider, Obama was figuratively dragged kicking and screaming to a decision over whether or not to give the go-ahead for a mission to kill Osama bin Laden at the Abbottabad compound.
Tensions were especially high between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who favored the action, and Valerie Jarret, the President's advisor. Jarrett was against an action that could lead to an ever weaker political position for the President should the mission fail, and a further destabilization of the Middle East resulting from a successful mission that would offend Muslim sensitivities. Months ago, intelligence staff became disgusted with the politicization of a national security interest and resigned. This can be corroborated by checking the timeline.
Eventually, Leon Panetta resorted to initiating a program that reported to him alone, involving a covert ground attack against bin Laden's compound. When the 48-hr. "GO" command was given, the WH was TOLD, not requested. The WH then scrambled to abort the mission, but was overruled.
For more details on this story, please visit Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs and here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Binnie Bunnies!
Those naughty, mean, colonialist dogs killed a man whose family gave away bunnies to children! MSNBC must be running this story on a constant loop.
One would think that the bin Ladens had a modest, family-operated home-based business breeding and raising small animals for sale to local pet stores in the Abbottabad area. The surplus stock was given away to neighborhood kids as a form of Islamic charity. While the "binny bunny" was their most popular item, other favorites included the "Suicide Squirrel" and "Hamas Hamster". "Jihad gerbil" was also very well-liked.
One would think that the bin Ladens had a modest, family-operated home-based business breeding and raising small animals for sale to local pet stores in the Abbottabad area. The surplus stock was given away to neighborhood kids as a form of Islamic charity. While the "binny bunny" was their most popular item, other favorites included the "Suicide Squirrel" and "Hamas Hamster". "Jihad gerbil" was also very well-liked.
White House Further Clarifies Conflicting Details of Bin Laden Raid (or "I have a narrative I can provide to you".)
(2:00PM) White House press secretary Jay Carney is asked about the discrepancies in the White House's account of the bin Laden attack. "What is true," he says, is that "we provided a great deal of information with great haste.""Obviously, some of the information was -- came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated and elaborated upon," he says. "I have a narrative that I can provide to you on the raid itself, on the bin Laden compound."
(2:02PM) Of bin Laden, Carney says "He was not armed. Resistance does not require a firearm," Carney says, "but the information I gave you is what I can tell you."
(2:09PM) Jay Carney is asked about the "assaulter" rushed by a woman when Osama bin Laden was being attacked. The White House press secretary says he doesn't have details about who was firing, and he says the team entered the room one at a time.
(2:36PM) Carney then reads his notes: In the room with bin Laden was bin Laden's wife. She "rushed one of the U.S assaulters" and was shot, not killed. A woman on the first floor was killed "in the crossfire." Bin Laden's wife was unarmed, he says.
(2:37PM) "No she had arms. She was just un-armed. She didn't have a weapon."
(2:44PM) He notes that Obama promised as a candidate to get bin Laden. As far as "transparency", reduced spending, reduced deficit, increased jobs, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay facility, the implementation of civilian trials for detainees and a better national stature abroad goes, Carney responded that "(the President) also got his kids a dog, so that's two promises kept right there. Think about that."
(2:45PM) White House carny Jay Spokesperson clarifies that bin Laden had heard the noise of the helicopters over the compound, was startled out of bed, tripped over a Fischer-Price toy and fell down a flight of stairs in the dark, sustaining a massive and fatal head injury.
(2:52PM) WH says that the bin Ladin compound was home to 57 malnourished cats.
(2:53PM) WH corrects number of cats to 106 and adds that there was also an illegal football pool being conducted, and many pirated movies were found in the library.
(3:15PM) (WH press secretary hides under podium where audible sobbing is awkwardly ignored by correspondents for over an hour.)
(4:30PM) WH Press Secretary Carney emerges and states emphatically that he is "winning".
(4:32PM) Carney horrifies press corps by revealing that after photos were taken of OBL in his burial shroud, the body was removed and a mannequin placed in the weighted body bag for burial at sea. The body is being transported to the new underground complex built at the White House as a necro-mechanics research facility, where OBL will be subjected to experimental biochemical modifications and become a bioweaponized zombie. Once he becomes undead he will be returned to Mecca for the hajj where he will do what zombies do and start the Zombie Plague.
(4:35PM) White House further clarifies conflicting details of bin Laden raid. Osama bin Laden came out of the residence dressed in a floral housecoat to put his cat outside for the night. Twenty-five Navy SEALS suddenly appeared, having rappelled to the compound from helicopters. They tear-gassed bin Laden and his cat. While OBL was screaming and wiping his eyes a Navy SEAL got down behind him on his hands and knees while another SEAL shoved bin Laden over the back of the 1st SEAL in what is known in military jargon as a "tabletop". Osama reached up to straighten his hair towel as he had just washed his hair and put it up in curlers, and that is when the SEALS thought he was reaching for a weapon and pre-emptively shot him twice above the eye.
(2:02PM) Of bin Laden, Carney says "He was not armed. Resistance does not require a firearm," Carney says, "but the information I gave you is what I can tell you."
(2:09PM) Jay Carney is asked about the "assaulter" rushed by a woman when Osama bin Laden was being attacked. The White House press secretary says he doesn't have details about who was firing, and he says the team entered the room one at a time.
(2:36PM) Carney then reads his notes: In the room with bin Laden was bin Laden's wife. She "rushed one of the U.S assaulters" and was shot, not killed. A woman on the first floor was killed "in the crossfire." Bin Laden's wife was unarmed, he says.
(2:37PM) "No she had arms. She was just un-armed. She didn't have a weapon."
(2:44PM) He notes that Obama promised as a candidate to get bin Laden. As far as "transparency", reduced spending, reduced deficit, increased jobs, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay facility, the implementation of civilian trials for detainees and a better national stature abroad goes, Carney responded that "(the President) also got his kids a dog, so that's two promises kept right there. Think about that."
(2:45PM) White House carny Jay Spokesperson clarifies that bin Laden had heard the noise of the helicopters over the compound, was startled out of bed, tripped over a Fischer-Price toy and fell down a flight of stairs in the dark, sustaining a massive and fatal head injury.
(2:52PM) WH says that the bin Ladin compound was home to 57 malnourished cats.
(2:53PM) WH corrects number of cats to 106 and adds that there was also an illegal football pool being conducted, and many pirated movies were found in the library.
(3:15PM) (WH press secretary hides under podium where audible sobbing is awkwardly ignored by correspondents for over an hour.)
(4:30PM) WH Press Secretary Carney emerges and states emphatically that he is "winning".
(4:32PM) Carney horrifies press corps by revealing that after photos were taken of OBL in his burial shroud, the body was removed and a mannequin placed in the weighted body bag for burial at sea. The body is being transported to the new underground complex built at the White House as a necro-mechanics research facility, where OBL will be subjected to experimental biochemical modifications and become a bioweaponized zombie. Once he becomes undead he will be returned to Mecca for the hajj where he will do what zombies do and start the Zombie Plague.
(4:35PM) White House further clarifies conflicting details of bin Laden raid. Osama bin Laden came out of the residence dressed in a floral housecoat to put his cat outside for the night. Twenty-five Navy SEALS suddenly appeared, having rappelled to the compound from helicopters. They tear-gassed bin Laden and his cat. While OBL was screaming and wiping his eyes a Navy SEAL got down behind him on his hands and knees while another SEAL shoved bin Laden over the back of the 1st SEAL in what is known in military jargon as a "tabletop". Osama reached up to straighten his hair towel as he had just washed his hair and put it up in curlers, and that is when the SEALS thought he was reaching for a weapon and pre-emptively shot him twice above the eye.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Post-Its at the Pump (AKA "gas roots activism")
This is a very typical TEA-party action.
It doesn't rely on media access. It's easy, costs almost nothing, is non-destructive, legal, and creative. It's fun, and it engages the regular everyday working people we know and love. It's a simple means of getting a simple message out, which makes it effective.
The materials? A Post-It note, a marker, your creativity, and a gas pump.
I read about this at Breitbart's BigGovernment, where James Simpson tipped us off to it. I needed to get a half tank before prices shot up some more by this weekend, so I contributed the couplet above.
If you want to take part, please observe the following guidelines:
- Don't cover up any warnings, advertisements, calibration stickers or keypads.
- Keep the language clean.
- Don't vandalize gas station property by writing on the pumps themselves! This is illegal and destructive. TEA party activists are famously respectful of both public and private property and the concerns of small business owners (as many gas station franchisees are).
- Have fun! As Saul Alinsky pointed out, " A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
Friday, April 8, 2011
Redial "D" for....
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), extreme far-left ideologue, is now comparing half of Americans to fleas.
In elevated rhetoric spewed during the budget fight, Senator Schumer said that “What we have here is a flea, wagging a tail, wagging a dog. The flea are the minority of House Republicans who are hard right, the tail is the House Republican caucus, and the dog is the government,” Schumer explained. “That flea is influencing what the dog does ... and it is sad.”
Yes, Senator, it is sad that you and Senator Harry Reid would rather shut down the government than stop forcing taxpayers to fund abortions, especially when they are performed on underage sex workers and girls who have statutorily raped. It is sad that your extreme far-left ideology compels you to defend choice not when it pertains to healthcare or firearm purchases, but to abortion, even that of minors transported across state lines in order to escape state laws requiring parental consent.
It is sad that when your party held control of the Presidency, the House and the Senate, you chose in 2010 to forgo passing a budget altogether. And now that Americans have risen up, angry at the irresponsible and dangerous spending habits of the past two years, you take umbrage.
Senator Schumer, you serve us. We are your masters. We will wag you, until we bag you.
April 9, 2011 Google results for "Schumer douchebag": 173,000 and rising
In elevated rhetoric spewed during the budget fight, Senator Schumer said that “What we have here is a flea, wagging a tail, wagging a dog. The flea are the minority of House Republicans who are hard right, the tail is the House Republican caucus, and the dog is the government,” Schumer explained. “That flea is influencing what the dog does ... and it is sad.”
Yes, Senator, it is sad that you and Senator Harry Reid would rather shut down the government than stop forcing taxpayers to fund abortions, especially when they are performed on underage sex workers and girls who have statutorily raped. It is sad that your extreme far-left ideology compels you to defend choice not when it pertains to healthcare or firearm purchases, but to abortion, even that of minors transported across state lines in order to escape state laws requiring parental consent.
It is sad that when your party held control of the Presidency, the House and the Senate, you chose in 2010 to forgo passing a budget altogether. And now that Americans have risen up, angry at the irresponsible and dangerous spending habits of the past two years, you take umbrage.
Senator Schumer, you serve us. We are your masters. We will wag you, until we bag you.
April 9, 2011 Google results for "Schumer douchebag": 173,000 and rising
Thursday, April 7, 2011
It's YOUR fault gas prices are so high.
I'm so glad that Obama is here to clear up my confusion. I seem to have the wrong opinions about everything.
I've been under the mistaken impression that gasoline is at the highest level in two years as the result of 1) uncertainties regarding the supplies of crude coming from the middle east given the social unrest in at least seven countries, 2) growing demand here as well as in India and China, and 3) the absence of any real effort at producing oil domestically.
But I'm just silly!
Today in Pennsylvania, Obama had to take some time during his speech to clear up some misconceptions held by a citizen in attendance. The citizen, like me, was also concerned about high gas prices and asked Obama about it. Obama sprang like a cheetah and cleared away the mists clouding that man's mind about what was really to blame:
“”If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”
See, rather than complain about the price of gas caused by these various policies, we should be altering our lifestyles, even if it means going into debt to purchase a new car. Or, if the gas mileage is pretty good, maybe we should all be riding motorcycles. It's our fault for not doing enough. It's our fault for griping when we could be buying new GM hybrids. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Thank you, Obama. Thank you, thank you.
Anyway, later on people had heard that Obama's wisdom had been dispensed as coolly and refreshingly as a Slurpee, and they looked for his sermons on the interweb, finding it not. For lo, it had been scrubbeth-ed away! But the cache of the Instapundit restoreth what was, what is, and what shall be:
A great clip for when we make one big trade-in come 2012.
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