Where Are My Keys?

Is it possible for a Democrat not to lie when doing news shows?

I guess not:

No big surprises in the note in the boat. The Joker said his brother Speedbump was a “martyr in paradise,” and that the victims in Boston were “collateral damage” for Muslim civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. He praised Allah and said, “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims.” Tell that to the Syrians, EBT boy.

The big question is, Why the monthlong blackout on the note in the boat? Why didn’t the feds release it immediately?

And the answer is obvious. It didn’t fit the Politically Correct narrative, that the reasons for this shocking atrocity remained a mystery, a riddle, an enigma, wink wink nudge nudge.

The Beautiful People were all toeing the PC line, that the bomber couldn’t have possibly been anybody except a cracker redneck Tea Party member. That was the unanimous verdict on MSNBC. Hey, it happened on Tax Day. That was David Axelrod’s theory. A blogger said he was praying that it was a “white” terrorist, because if the bombers were who they turned out to be, it would hurt Dear Leader’s agenda.

This Benghazi-like agitprop went right to the top.

Barack Obama, April 15: “We still do not know who did this, or why, and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have all the facts.”

Technically, we didn’t know, but …

Deval Patrick, April 16: “There are times when all kinds of 
forces conspire to make people think of categories of people sometimes in uncharitable ways.”

Even after he was arrested, the Joker was portrayed by the rumpswab media as a scrawny, floppy-haired “All-American boy.” Some stories are just too good to check out, especially if the facts will demolish Dear Leader’s talking points.

The note in the boat turned up Friday night. Seems likely that Deval Patrick knew what was in it soon thereafter. But that Sunday, he goes on “Face the Nation” and Bob Schieffer asks him if he has “any clearer idea” why the “two young men” did it.

“Not yet, Bob. Uh, and it’s hard, it’s hard for me and for many to imagine what could motivate uh, people to, uh, harm, uh, innocent men, women and children, uh, in the way that, uh, these two fellows did.”

What has become of the American Left today, where maintaining the narrative is more important than the truth?

Does the dam finally break now?

I can only hope reporters around the Country are thinking the following:

• When the scandal was "Fast and Furious", I didn't care, because I don't like guns..
• When the scandal was Benghazi, I didn't care, because I'm not an Ambassador..
• When the scandal was the IRS, I didn't care, because I don't belong to the Tea Party..
• When the scandal was AP wiretaps, I woke up, and did my job!

You know what happens when you try to throw someone under the bus?

If they shouldn't be getting thrown under the bus because they were following your orders, they'll probably speak up.  On Friday, Jay Carney and the Administration basically said the 12 edits to the talking points were done at the hands of the CIA.  Forget for a second that the reporters (and those paying attention) say this as complete nonsense.  What happens next shouldn't be a surprise to anyone-seems there additional whistleblowers ready to come forward.  Wanna bet some (if not all) are CIA?

Why isn't there an "After Action" report from Benghazi?

When you do something every time there is a fatality, and then you don't do one, it makes reasonable people ask why:

The military has conducted hundreds of assessments for battles throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. At the platoon level, an “After Action” critique is required whenever there are American fatalities. But at the highest level, there has been no military After Action assessment about Benghazi.

The fight at the U.S. consulate waxed and waned for ten hours. Yet during that time, the Marine Force Recon unit on Sigonella Air Base, 500 miles away, was never deployed and not one F-16 or F-18 was dispatched. Granted, Force Recon and fighter aircraft weren’t on alert and did not appear on the Pentagon’s official list of “hostage rescue forces.” But they were one phone call away, and no general asked for them. Ten hours provided adequate time for a range of ad hoc responses. Commanders are expected to adapt in battle.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said, “We have repeatedly stated that . . . our forces were unable to reach it in time to intervene to stop the attacks.” That is true only if the Pentagon is incapable of improvising. If you see people in a burning house, you do your best to help immediately; you don’t wait for the fire department to respond in a normal manner. If called upon, the Marines on Sigonella would have gathered whoever was on hand and piled into one of a dozen military planes parked at the base. The Benghazi airport 90 minutes away was secure; CIA operatives were standing on the runway, because they had improvised by hiring a plane and flying in from the embassy in Tripoli, 400 miles away. A fighter jet could have refueled at that airport, with the CIA providing cover. Instead, the military ordered four Special Operations soldiers at the Tripoli embassy not to fly to Benghazi and join the CIA team. 

The military did nothing, except send a drone to watch the action. Defense Secretary Panetta later offered the excuse, “You can’t willy-nilly send F-16s there and blow the hell out of place. . . . You have to have good intelligence.” As a civilian, Mr. Panetta probably didn’t know that 99 percent of air sorties over Afghanistan never drop a single bomb. General Dempsey, however, knew it was standard procedure to roar menacingly over the heads of mobs, while not “blowing the hell out of them.” A show of air power does have a deterrent effect and is routinely employed.

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The integrity of the Pentagon is not in question. The purpose of an After Action is to perform better the next time. Is the public seriously to believe that in ten hours Dempsey and the $600 billion dollar Defense Department could not dispatch one ad hoc rescue team, as our embassy in Tripoli did, or order one fighter jet to scramble?

Have our military’s best and brightest lost the capacity to improvise? Clearly, that merits an assessment. Will General Dempsey ask for a review of his own procedures? Do as I say, or as I do? The chairman of the joint chiefs is the only general who can answer that.

The same Left that screamed about Bush and FISA wiretaps remain silent..

Kudos to the NYTimes for reporting on this, but don't count on seeing any of the same outrage directed towards President Bush being leveled at President Obama.

The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, has argued that the bureau’s ability to carry out court-approved eavesdropping on suspects is “going dark” as communications technology evolves, and since 2010 has pushed for a legal mandate requiring companies like Facebook and Google to build into their instant-messaging and other such systems a capacity to comply with wiretap orders. That proposal, however, bogged down amid concerns by other agencies, like the Commerce Department, about quashing Silicon Valley innovation.

While the F.B.I.’s original proposal would have required Internet communications services to each build in a wiretapping capacity, the revised one, which must now be reviewed by the White House, focuses on fining companies that do not comply with wiretap orders. The difference, officials say, means that start-ups with a small number of users would have fewer worries about wiretapping issues unless the companies became popular enough to come to the Justice Department’s attention.

Still, the plan is likely to set off a debate over the future of the Internet if the White House submits it to Congress, according to lawyers for technology companies and advocates of Internet privacy and freedom.

“I think the F.B.I.’s proposal would render Internet communications less secure and more vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves,” said Gregory T. Nojeim of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “It would also mean that innovators who want to avoid new and expensive mandates will take their innovations abroad and develop them there, where there aren’t the same mandates.”

More people on disability in the USA, than the entire population of Greece..

Not a sign your economy is healthy:

The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,962,532 million in April, which exceeds the 10,815,197 people who live in the nation of Greece.

According to newly released data from the Social Security Administration, the record 10,962,532 total disability beneficiaries in April, included a record 8,865,586 disabled workers (up from 8,853,614 in March), 1,936,236 children of disabled workers, and 160,710 spouses of disabled workers.

Wow.

Notice anyone missing from the list?

Here's a ranking put together of the world's billionaires.  There is a very prominent name missing from the list, he should be in the #15-17 slotting.

I'll give you a few clues.  He's worth around $27 billion.  He's an American.  He lives in New York City.  He's in politics, and also dabbles as an entrepreneur.

Do you know who it is?

 

A trip down memory lane..

Hey, remember this chart?

Our future is so bright..

If this is the type of "knowledge" on display at one of the Top 25 schools, what are they learning at the rest of them?

 

Today's unemployment numbers, a closer look..

As per norm, Zerohedge has some great details on unemployment.

First, this post looks at where the labor force participation levels are.  The bad news?  They are similar to 1979.

Next, this post looks at where the jobs were added in April:

I recall the MSM and Left complaining that jobs added under Bush with low-level "McJobs". Why do I think they will report on similar jobs under Obama in a different light?

And finally, we have a breakdown on jobs by age and gender: 

What is scary is that young men are not being hired, but old (over 55) are.  SO the "elderly" are hanging on, while the youngsters continue to get squeezed out of the labor pool.  That means they are not getting experience, money, and much hope for the foreseeable future.

When you look at the younger folks, broken down by gender, it is pretty bleak for young men:

I wonder if this reflects more young girls getting jobs at the mall, and the guys aren't getting the lawn/construction/labor jobs they used to.

Overall, not the picture of an economy that is healthy, is it?