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Category: Breaking News

  • …and the ACORN hits keep coming

    James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the “pimp” and “hooker” show from BigGovernment.com also went on the road to New York City and scored with the ACORN crowd there, too. From the New York Post;

    As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group — which specializes in housing and voter activism — were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law.

    “You know, what goes on in the house we don’t care,” one counselor said. “We just help you with the mortgage.”

    Here’s the videos;

    Yeah, ACORN said the first one was an isolated incident. So isolated that James and Hannah will probably tire out before they run out of offices to investigate.

  • Tea Party at the Cannon Building

    I stopped by the Cannon Building this morning to finally meet Bev Perlson and her Band of Mothers and some intermixed FReepers who were supposed to be there. This time they were. So, here are the pictures from the first DC Tea Party event of the weekend;

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    The only Congressman I saw that I recognized was little lyin’-ass John Lewis, but they were probably all tuckered out from clapping and standing up the night before.

    Bev told me that after a few more people showed up, she was going in to thank Joe Wilson for his stunt last night. I wouldn’t be surprised if she did.

  • Shuffling the interrogation deck chairs

    There’s a new old policy in town for interrogation – the Associated Press calls it “a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House”.

    The Washington Post says the new unit will be named “High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group” or “HIG”.

    It sounds like something out of a Brad Thor novel. I’ve nicknamed it the “PPACP” unit – it stands for “Pretty Please, Aw C’mon, Please” because now that the White House has no one to blame except themselves, that’s the only acceptable interrogation technique from here on out.

    AP says interrogators will be limited to interrogation techniques in the Army Field Manual. Here are the actual prohibited techniques from FM 32-54;

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    In other words, the Obama Administration is taking over the responsibility of interrogations just to prevent waterboarding – all of that other stuff has always been frowned upon and discouraged. the only thing on that list that was used legally by the Bush Administration was waterboarding. And there have been more hippies waterboarded at their demonstrations than all of the terrorists have suffered since 9-11.

    Even pussywillow Matthis Chiroux survived his voluntary waterboarding.

    I think this is nothing more than a token to the peace crowd who are still angry that Obama stepped up troop levels in Afghanistan (which may change soon) and because he hasn’t shut Guantanamo yet.

    But, you can be sure of one thing, now that Barack Erkel is directly overseeing interrogation, the terrorists are shaking in their boots.

  • Two Reps return from Honduras

    Two Republican Congressmen have returned from their trip to investigate the supposed coup in Honduras and their estimation of the situation differs, unsurprisingly, from the Administration according to The Hill;

    “The majority of folks think Zelaya should come back to the country, but to stand trial,” Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) said.

    Mack told The Hill that he found Hondurans to be in “disbelief” at the Obama administration’s reaction to the ouster of Zelaya.

    “Whether or not [Hondurans] agree on how he was removed all of them agree that he broke the constitution, broke the law,” Mack said. “A large majority believe he should not return to Honduras and to power.”

    Bilbray said the U.S. can’t put itself in a position of supporting a president over a country’s constitution and the rule of law. “That’s a scary place for us to find ourselves, especially considering our history,” he said.

    Well, it’s not that hard to figure out, actually. The Obama places a higher value on the friendship of Chavez, Ortega, Morales, Correa and Zelaya than he does on the friendship of the Honduran people. I’d like to know the name of the Obama advisor who read the Honduran Constitution and then gave Obama the advice to support the unconditional return of Zelaya to his office.

    While the Honduran Army has vowed that it won’t fire on Honduran people, Zelaya is urging Obama to place sanctions on his country. Interim president Micheletti has promised to step down to keep the peace, while Zelaya has threatened “blood in the streets”. So who is thinking of the Honduran people and who is thinking of their own political survival?

    Thanks to TSO for The Hill link.

  • Feds one step closer to Murtha

    Washington Times‘ Ben Conery reports this morning that federal prosecutors have secured a conviction of another criminal with ties to John Murtha;

    A federal investigation into defense contractors, including some with links to Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, appears to be gathering steam – and valuable help.

    Mark O’Hair, a Defense Department program manager, pleaded guilty Monday to making a false statement on a federal disclosure form. He acknowledged lying about business ties he had to companies that received money from a military contract he oversaw.

    The plea agreement, reached in federal court in Florida, does not specify a penalty for O’Hair. But the plea deal does require O’Hair to cooperate with federal agents.

    Since the boneheads in Murtha’s district won’t fire his monkey-ass, maybe the Feds can do it for us.

  • Zelaya gives talks until midnight

    Things are heating up in central America over former President Zelaya’s ouster. The deposed politico, from the safety of Nicaragua, has declared that at midnight he’ll steal into Honduras to continue his fight against the Constitutional government in Honduras. This from Fausta’s Blog;

    Sounds to me he’s saying he’ll be leading a battle… mañana. We’ll see what the weekend brings. The negotiations are scheduled to resume today.

    From Alberto de la Cruz at Babalu Blog, it seems that the referendum Zelaya was booted for inciting had the fix in;
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  • Army withdraws Birther’s orders (Updated)

    (Update below the jump)

    Apparently, the Army withdrew the movement orders for Major Stefan Cook, the fella we wrote about yesterday who refused to deploy to Afghanistan based on his belief that President Barack Obama isn’t a US citizen. According to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer;

    Lt. Col. Maria Quon, U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Army Human Resources Command-St. Louis, said Tuesday evening Cook was no longer expected to report Wednesday to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for mobilization to active duty.

    Cook is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee, meaning he is a reserve soldier assigned to an active component unit for duty. He is assigned to the U.S. Army Element of U.S. Southern Command. Last week Cook filed a request in federal court through his California-based attorney, Orly Taitz, seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector.

    So, Major Numbnuts avoided some jail time, and the Obama Administration renews the paranoia from the birthers. I can hardly blame the Army wanting to be free of the antics of Orly Taintz, Cook’s dentist-turned-real estate agent-turned-lawyer-turned crackpot nirther, but they must realize how this makes the whole thing look.

    Me? I’m more concerned about the impending health care atrocity and the deficit. And Cook is still a criminal and the Left is still hypocritical for not supporting him.

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  • UN coaxes OAS to act on Honduras

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    The United Nations’ Secretary General, who can’t see anything to complain about when Chavez nationalizes private property in Venezuela, or when Ortega does the same in Nicaragua, or when Correa of Ecuador lends moral and material support to terrorists, urged the Organization of American States to step in and “restore the Constitutional order” in Honduras. From El Universal;

    The Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, requested Monday the restoration, under the auspices of the Organization of American Estados (OAS), of the “constitutional order” in Honduras, where president Manuel Zelaya was stopped and expelled by the military.

    The OAS must assume “a leadership role to find a peaceful solution so that the constitutional order can be restored”, said Ban.

    Those are some real pretty words – except that the Constitutional order has been restored. Zelaya was the fella who violated the Honduran constitution as I explained yesterday. The bloodshed in Honduras is because the OAS, Chavez, Correa, Fernandez and Ortega won’t keep their fingers out of Honduras.

    If Ban is so concerned about the deaths yesterday, he’d be telling the OAS to step back instead of pursuing a path towards more blood shed.

    And if Zelaya had a brain in his head, he’d throw up his hands, too. He got off easy compared to a lot of deposed Latin American leaders of the last century.

    If he becomes too much of a pest to the Honduran government, they’ll have no other option than to kill his dumb ass so he can’t return. Sure he’d be a martyr, but he’d be dead.