More people wish Hillary Clinton to step aside, in order to allow Barack Hussein Obama to take the Demorat nomination:

Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont senator who endorsed Obama in January, said she was never going to win enough delegates, and he suggested she should throw in the towel in “the interests of a Democratic victory in November.” A number of Democrats have expressed concern that Republican John McCain is getting a head start while Obama and Clinton fight on.

In response, Hillary has essentially said “no way” to any thought of quitting:

I know a little bit about comebacks,” she said to cheers. “I know what it’s like to be counted down and counted out. But I also know there is nothing that will keep us down if we are determined to keep on.

Asked what she thought of Obama’s comment Friday that the Democratic primary race resembled “a good movie that lasted about a half-hour too long,” Clinton smiled broadly and said, “I like long movies.”

Her daughter Chelsea also weighed in:

Well, again, I don’t take anything for granted, but hopefully with Pennsylvania’s help, she will be our next president, and yes, I do think she’ll be a better president.”

From Breitbart.com:

Charges against a US Marine allegedly involved in the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha were dropped on Friday ahead of his trial, the military said in a statement. A court martial for lance corporal Stephen Tatum had been due to start on Friday on charges of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and aggravated assault.

However in a statement released from the Marines Camp Pendleton base outside San Diego, the military said the charges had been dismissed “in order to continue to pursue the truth seeking process into the Haditha incident.”

Just a bit of a clue: had the military possessed any real evidence against this Marine from the beginning, under the UCMJ he would have been hung out to dry and moved to Leavenworth forthwith. But likely the JAG-IC received specific prosecutory instructions from far above. Once again, our military bends and sways to the feminized political machinations from Washington.

“Outsourcing.” I dislike it intensely. According to the Washington Times, even American passports are being made overseas, assembled in Thailand. Yes, American passports. The article indicates there are no U.S. printers who can handle the job. I disbelieve that.

But an article on Reuters indicates the AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says:

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India.

However, he makes a scathing but pointed observation when he says:

Stephenson said he is especially distressed that in some U.S. communities and among certain groups, the high school dropout rate is as high as 50 percent.

“If I had a business that half the product we turned out was defective or you couldn’t put into the marketplace, I would shut that business down,” he said.

Our public schools, then, should be shut down. U.S. public schools are laughingstocks; they are a shambles, filled with youngsters with no real drive, no real discipline, no real motivated teachers, filled with complacency, emasculated boys, historical inaccuracies (when history is taught at all), emotions, “feelings,” “self-esteem,” children with highly overestimated senses of individual worth, little responsibility, and teachers and admin staff more worried about their unions and keeping their jobs than actually performing. And oh-my-God, don’t you dare question or second-guess a teacher or their value or their ability to be efficient or meet standards! Heresy! Blasphemy!

So: is this why we can’t compete globally?

Not unlike the recent lies issuing forth from Barack Hussein Obama in re “not knowing” the true nature of his anti-American and racist pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it now emerges that three Demorat congressmen took a trip to Iraq in 2002, in order to “stop the war,” the trip being financed by none other than Saddam Hussein via CAIR out of Michigan.

Let’s be plain and up front: Barack Hussein Obama isn’t stupid, and I’ll wager the three involved Congressmen, Demorat Representatives Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California are not either.

Barack Hussein Obama disavows knowing the true nature of Rev. Wright. BHO isn’t stupid, therefore he is a liar.

Here comes the bleating disclaimer from today’s Congressmen:

Obviously we didn’t know it at the time,” McDermott spokesman Michael DeCesare said Wednesday. “The trip was to see the plight of the Iraqi children. That’s the only reason we went.”

From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam’s regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary.

At the time, the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq.

Shall we examine this for just a moment?

Hmm. Let’s see. The Weekly Standard had this to say way back in October of 2002, about the Baghdad Democrats:

IT’S A RARE POLITICAL MOMENT when Terry McAuliffe says no comment. Yet McAuliffe, the garrulous chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said just that last Wednesday at the Brookings Institution after a speech by Al Gore. Asked about the trip to Baghdad taken by three of his fellow partisans–Representatives David Bonior, Jim McDermott, and Mike Thompson–McAuliffe was nonplussed.

Further, Bonier was on record back then, during the trip, as burping out the standard Demorat bleat: “War is not the answer.” Excuse me; what was the question?

Were these Congressdupes taking the trip to truly examine “the plight of the Iraqi children,” or were they simply taking the juvenile steps to accommodate their previously-held beliefs on a junket pre-paid?

Again, they would have us believe:

Huh. Which part of any of that computes to “we had no idea what we were doing or who was behind it?”

As I said: either stupid or liars.

And they’re not stupid.

You can readily do the math.

P.S.

Please see the above picture of another useful idiot and dupe.

You cannot attend a church for 20+ years, have a pastor perform your marriage, attend his sermons, and NOT know what he says. And has said. Over and over. Rev. Wright is simply a raving, anti-American racist, plain and simple. Obama’s recent words about Wright were nothing more than a glossing-over, a coverup, solely due to race. Obama was attempting to explain away Rev. Wright because Wright is black. Saying that blacks were poisoned by the CIA, that they were purposely given AIDS, is just Nutter Stuff — akin to Truthers who believe U.S. authorities demo’d the Twin Towers and surrounding buildings.

But wait; there’s more:

Hugh Hewitt recently unearthed a Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin (the church in question in re Wright and Obama, wherein it is clearly delineated that: “Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.,” is the “Senior Pastor”) exhibiting an article on the Pastor’s Page entitled “Open Letter to Oprah from Ali Baghdadi on Her Visit to Palestine“, page 8, by an Ali Baghdadi (from the bulletin in its description of the author: “Ali Baghdadi, an Arab-American activist, writer, columnist; worked with several African-American groups on civil and human rights issues since the mid sixties; acted as a Middle East advisor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the founder of the Nation of Islam, as well as Minister Louis Farrakhan; visited more than 80 countries throughoutthe world and met with many of their leaders, including Mandela, Castro, Saddam Hussein, Hafez Assad, Qathafi, Abdallah ibn Abdel-Aziz, Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khamenei, among many others.”).

In this article, Baghdadi writes in part:

I must tell you that Israel was the closest ally to the White Supremacists of South Africa. In fact, South Africa allowed Israel to test its nuclear weapons in the ocean off South Africa. The Israelis were given a blank check: they could test whenever they desired and did not even have to ask permission. Both worked on an ethnic bomb that kills Blacks and Arabs.

It would seem Obama’s church and Rev. Wright have just about every Nutter, Racist and Anti-American aspect completely covered. Incidentally, back in 1998, Baghdadi was already accusing the White House (under Clinton!) of being completely Zionist. Further, in Ramallah Online, Baghdadi writes, in a justification of the 9/11 attacks:

Most of the credit must be given to our leaders and strategists in Washington who lack the courage and vision to address the root of the problem that led, as we are told, nineteen young Muslim men to carry out the most horrible non-governmental terrorist act in history. Instead of steering America, a damaged ship, safely to shore, and reviewing our misguided and immoral policy that made America the most hated country on earth, and resulted in the destruction of our two symbols of economic and military powers, and above all the death of innocent people, our President chose a with-us-or-against-us crusade as a solution.

The ADL writes about Baghdadi in this article from 1998, typifying him as a “black bigot.”

Yes. Wonderful church. Excellent vision and perspective. Admirable Senior Pastor. That’s certainly a Man of God that I’d heartily embrace. If I were running as a presidential candidate.

Well, first, a quick political summation before the main point:

Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been hit with 12 criminal counts by the Wayne County DA’s office, charges to include perjury, obstruction of justice, misconduct in office and conspiracy. Kilpatrick physically looks like a refugee from a very bad grade B Hollywood rap movie rushed to DVD. What a loser. Detroit deserves what it gets.

New York’s Governor David Paterson has now admitted to using cocaine and marijuana, as well as having 3-ways, 4-ways and likely unbidden trysts with small woodland creatures incorporating Wesson Oil and plastic sheets. Paterson has assuaged citizens by indicating he is not sleeping around on his wife this week.

Ah. I feel so much better, knowing that our politicians are only human. After all, what does the fashion in which a politician lives his or her personal life (or has a vivid imagination in re Hillary’s “misremembered” Bosnia trip) have to do with his or her basic sense of ethics, morals, decision-making or sense of honor? Not much, if you would but ask the Demorats and the Left.

Meanwhile, back at the Technology Ranch:

March 20, 2008 (Computerworld) An employee looking to steal confidential information from his employer sneaks into what should be a secure back room after hours. He pulls charts and files from a top-level financial meeting and slides them into his briefcase before heading back out.

What the insider doesn’t know is that his shoes picked up hundreds of tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) chips that had been scattered across the floor. As he passes by an RFID reader near the front door of his office building, security will be alerted that he had accessed a secure area. The evidence is all over the soles of his shoes.

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the Waters of Theft, there’s more:

(President of Nox Defense, Carl) Brown explained that the RFID chips, or spy chips, are perfect for what he calls clandestine surveillance. The RFID readers can be hidden in an office building or warehouse, and the RFID tags can be placed on company products or property — even on employee name tags or ID badges. Thieves, intruders and even personnel see nothing of the tracking system.

If an employee in the warehouse walks off with a plasma TV or loads seven instead of five computers into the delivery truck, it can be tracked with the RFID technology. And since the RFID chips will tell security what time the equipment was moved, the company can check the digital video archives for that time and that section of the warehouse.

And check this out:

The RFID Dust that Nox Defense also sells is actually made up of tiny RFID chips — each about the size of a grain of sand, according to Brown. They can be scattered on a floor, so when someone walks through a room, entryway or warehouse, the tags will stick to their shoes or pants cuffs. When they walk past an RFID reader, it will be able to tell where they’ve been.

Better grab that new plasma TV or your handful of pencils from the work cabinet soon, before RFID Dust or tags throw a damper on your thieving life!

BZ