This will be a short post.
Because evidently Chelsea Clinton laments her own birth.
Can she really be this incredibly stupid?
Apparently so.
BZ
Chelsea Clinton Laments: My Grandmother Did Not Have Access to Planned Parenthood
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Promised by the federal government: “No drones over the US.” WRONG
A blatant and bald-faced LIE.
From RT.com:
FBI director admits domestic use of drones for surveillance
The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday.
Robert Mueller, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use of the controversial aircraft.
“Does the FBI use drones for surveillance on US soil?” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Mr Mueller during an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“Yes,” Mueller responded bluntly, adding that the FBI’s operation of drones is “very seldom.”
Asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) to elaborate, Mueller added, “It’s very seldom used and generally used in a particular incident where you need the capability.” Earlier in the morning, however, Mueller said that the agency was only now working to establish set rules for the drone program.
A lie before; a lie again.
Let us not forget this is the same blithering idiot — FBI Director Robert Mueller — who conveniently knew “nothing” about the IRS scandal.
And it is that you trust your federal government to do what precisely?
BZ
Actor James Gandolfini: dead at age 51
From the NYDailyNews.com:
James Gandolfini dead at 51: ‘Sopranos’ star suffers massive heart attack in Italy
‘Everyone is in tears,’ a source close to the Emmy Award-winning actor tells the Daily News.
James Gandolfini, the New Jersey-bred actor who delighted audiences as mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos” has died following a massive heart attack in Italy, a source told the Daily News.
Deaths tend to come in threes.
Who will be the third?
BZ
Author Vince Flynn: dead at age 47
One of my very favorite authors, Vince Flynnn self-published his first book, “Term Limits,” in 1997 after 60 rejections, then had it picked up by Pocket Books where it was issued in hardback. He had written 14 books in all, with a 15th, “The Survivor,” slated to come out in hardback in November.
Mr Flynn wrote mostly about his character Mitch Rapp, an under-cover CIA counter-terrorism agent. Flynn was very accurate in his writings and had insight into the game plans of covert activities. His writing was so accurate that DC became concerned.
On February 1, 2011, in his fan newsletter, Flynn announced that he was being treated for advanced Stage III prostate cancer. He found himself able to write, recently, roughly an hour a day.
He passed away, today, in a St. Paul, Minnesota hospital, surrounded with over thirty family members and friends.
Today is a sad day.
BZ
The US Senate: looking out for your best interests regarding border security
And the US Senate has determined that your best interests are not served by having a border fence along our southern border with Mexico.
From the WashingtonTimes.com:
Senators on Tuesday rejected building the 700 miles of double-tier border fencing Congress authorized just seven years ago, with a majority of the Senate saying they didn’t want to delay granting illegal immigrants legal status while the fence was being built.
The 54-39 vote to reject the fence shows the core of the immigration deal is holding. The vote broke mostly along party lines, though five Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio and the rest of the bill’s authors, voted against the fence, and two Democrats voted for it.
Please note that: Marco Rubio voted against the fence.
Republicans had offered the fence as a way to build the confidence of voters skeptical that the government will enforce its laws, but opponents said building more fencing is costly, would take too long, and shouldn’t be dictated by Washington.
“I think we should leave that to the best judgment of the Border Patrol,” said Sen. John McCain, one of the eight senators who wrote the immigration bill.
John McCain, a POW from the Vietnam era, has served his country well whilst in the military. I believe he does not serve his country now, though he “represents” the state of Arizona, obviously a border state with Mexico. This is a conflict that I cannot conjur or condone. Mr McCain has served his time and needs to leave politics immediately. Which, of course, he will not.
Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican, proposed the border fence amendment, which would have prevented the administration from granting any illegal immigrants legal status under the bill until at least 350 miles of double-tier fencing has been erected, and would withhold full citizenship rights until 700 total miles have been built.
Correct. Thune proffered a logical amendment in which he required the government to do something actively and up front. I concur. I don’t trust the federal government. They have given us many years of execrable performance (mostly the lack thereof) to justify this tanking of trust.
This was a bit of my personal “make or break” point, and the federal government has broken things once again. They are men and women who are primarily interested in serving their own best interests of self, and the American Taxpayers can predominantly go straight to Hell.
Minutes after the border fence, senators also voted to weaken current law that requires the government to have biometric checks such as fingerprints or eye-scans for every visitor to the U.S. — a recommendation of the 9/11 commission that looked into the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.
Read that again: weaken CURRENT law. A “recommendation of the 9/11 commission that looked into the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.”
Then the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) weighs in:
CBO: Immigration bill only stops 25 percent of illegal immigration
The Senate immigration bill will be a major boost to the federal budget but does relatively little to clamp down on illegal immigration — cutting the future flow by only about 25 percent — according to the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the bill, released Tuesday afternoon.
Under the bill, which legalizes illegal immigrants and invites in foreign workers, immigration will total 10.4 million more people over the next decade and 16.2 million by 2033.
So: another “feel good” bill which is predicated, again, on naught but emotions, leaving facts and reality kicked to the curb?
Apparently so.
With a caveat to John Boehner via Politico.com:
Dana Rohrabacher warns John Boehner on speakership
By REBECCA ELLIOTT | 6/18/13 7:27 AM EDT
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) says Speaker John Boehner should be ousted if he rams through an immigration bill without majority Republican support.
“If Speaker Boehner moves forward and permits this to come to a vote even though the majority of the Republicans in the House—and that’s if they do—oppose whatever it is that’s coming to a vote, he should be removed as Speaker,” Rohrabacher said on World Net Daily radio on Monday.
On the other hand, does anyone think that, suddenly, magically, the GOP will somehow find a pair of testicles and/or a spine recently discarded from a person missing both these essential items?
I don’t.
BZ