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Newest Obama Admin abortion: Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe

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Obama-tapped-AP-1024x420Welcome to the world of Barack Milhous Schicklgruber Obama, king of the current Scandal Trifecta:

1) Benghazi.  Click here for my links to the Benghazi murders.

2) The IRS Gestapo orders audits on only Conservative outlets such as various factions of the TEA Party Patriots, as early as 2010 — groups that were critical of the Obama Administration.  Senior IRS officials have known about this for as long as two years:

ABC News actually dares to write:

The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News.

As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010. That was when the Cincinnati-based IRS unit responsible for overseeing the applications for tax exempt status starting using the phrases “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12″ to search for applications warranting greater scrutiny.

During this first phase, 10 Tea Party cases were identified. By April of 2010, 18 Tea Party organizations were targeted, including three that had already been approved for tax-exempt status.

By June 2011, the unit had flagged over 100 Tea Party-related applications and the criteria used to scrutinize organizations had grown considerably, flagging not just “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in group names, but also groups that were working on issues like “government debt,” “taxes” and even organizations making statements that “criticize how the country is being run.”

But that’s not all.  The UKMailOnline reveals:

The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting – including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers

  • Lengthy questionnaire arrived more than two years after the Richmond Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status
  • IRS demanded ‘names of the donors, contributors, and grantors‘ and insisted: ‘Please identify your volunteers’
  • Tax collectors began in 2012 to scrutinize conservative nonprofits more closely than others
  • Documents show senior IRS officials in Washington knew of the practice as early as August 2011, but the White House says it learned last month

The IRS ultimately identified approximately 300 such organizations, many of which were independently organized in 2009 and 2010 under the larger ‘tea party’ banner. Those groups had a decisive impact in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, and became a thorn in the side of the Democratic party, costing it race after race, especially in the House of Representatives, which shifted to Republican control.


Don’t you wonder why, for example, MoveOn.org wasn’t targeted?  Or any other Leftist organization?  If there is evidence of this, I ask: bring it forward.  I am quite satisfied there is no such thing, meaning: this was no mistake.  This was no “oopsie” event.  This was COORDINATED and it was PURPOSEFUL and it was KNOWN right up to the topmost levels of the IRS, the Treasury and perhaps even Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner — who himself is a known tax cheat. 
This wasn’t a mistake, it was a purposeful series of events given permission from the highest of management.  Individual IRS case officers don’t, for example, tell their supervisors what they will or will not investigate.  Their managers tell them.
And, as with Fast & Furious, a concerted series of investigatory events don’t pass unnoticed or unapproved by upper management in any federal investigatory management system.  Up to and including the AUSA and beyond.  The federal system doesn’t work off the concept of a “fresh arrest,” which is an alien concept.  As with the FBI, there is a pre-investigation and then the investigation itself — but only when approved.
Let there be no confusion: this wasn’t a Mistake.  It was a Purpose.  People need to not only be fired, but CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED for the violation of USC code sections.

 

The IRS wants all your personal medical information as well.

Even Tom Brokaw says: “I’m offended by the IRS.”

“I’m offended by it,” Brokaw continued. “This is not a political issue or a conservative or a liberal issue. It really is about trusting your government especially when it comes to one of the most sensitive parts.”

Now:

3) The DOJ is found to have tapped the phone records of Associated Press (AP) reporters for months.  From the AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

First thought: only when reporters are personally affected do the American Media Maggots somehow locate the air their lungs require to actually object to the rights-killing abominations of the Obaka Administration.  They — reporters — are sacrosanct; everyone else, fodder and grist for the mill.

Final thought about Mr Obama’s Umbrage Central: he objects vocally to the IRS events, which means he has NO skin in that game.  He, on the other hand, has MUCH skin in the Benghazi game which results in his vocal and continuing denial of responsibility.

I can only hope that Mr Obama is popping Tums and drinking pink cement in quarts, daily.

That would make me smile widely.

BZ

P.S.

As one USAF general told my father at dinner in our on-base house one evening in the late 60s: “I don’t get ulcers; I give them.”

 

 

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Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS

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Govt Big EnuffEverything you were told about ObakaKare, that wouldn’t happen — like being able to retain your own doctor, no death panels, less expensive — is happening.

From Americans For Tax Reform:

So why will the Obama IRS require your personal identifying health information? 

Simply put, there is no way for the IRS to enforce Obamacare’s individual mandate without such an invasive reporting scheme.  Every January, health insurance companies across America will send out tax documents to each insured individual.  This tax document—a copy of which will be furnished to the IRS—must contain sufficient information for taxpayers to prove that they purchased qualifying health insurance under Obamacare.

This new tax information document must, at a minimum, contain: the name and health insurance identification number of the taxpayer; the name and tax identification number of the health insurance company; the number of months the taxpayer was covered by this insurance plan; and whether or not the plan was purchased in one of Obamacare’s “exchanges.”

This will involve millions of new tax documents landing in mailboxes across America every January, along with the usual raft of W-2s, 1099s, and 1098s.  At tax time, the 140 million families who file a tax return will have to get acquainted with a brand new tax filing form.  Six million of these families will end up paying Obamacare’s individual mandate non-compliance tax penalty.

Those 14,000 new IRS agents?  Yes, they’re there in order to review your taxes with a fine-toothed comb.  Your federal colonoscopy, at one time only guaranteed by the TSA, is now guaranteed by the TSA and the IRS.

If you’re at least a bit Libertarian, like me, then you value your privacy.

With ObakaKare, you can kiss your privacy absolutely good-bye.

BZ

 

 

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Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it’s up, says study

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Obama-Gun-ConfiscationFrom — of all places — the Los Angeles Times:

Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show.

Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.

In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half.

For those of you who just tuned in, let’s repeat that last sentence:

In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half.

Continuing:

Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium.

The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Wednesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.

But here come the results of indoctrination by the American Media Maggots, revealed:

Despite the remarkable drop in gun crime, only 12% of Americans surveyed said gun crime had declined compared with two decades ago, according to Pew, which surveyed  more than 900 adults this spring. Twenty-six percent said it had stayed the same, and 56% thought it had increased.

But, from the Department of Redundancy Dept:

Experts debate why overall crime has fallen, attributing the drop to all manner of causes, such as the withering of the crack cocaine market and surging incarceration rates.

Really?  You mean actually putting people in jail may work — ?

Florida already wants to make Anger Management classes mandatory for ammo buyers.

What the Demorats and Leftists don’t want to acknowledge is that there is a definite correlation between gun control and black people control.

Because it’s not about gun control, it’s about People Control.

“We live in a society of wolves.  You do not fight back by creating more sheep.”

I already wrote about “Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs.”  Because I am a sheepdog.

Evidence indicates that guns prevent crime.

My Rules of a Gunfight are here.

To confirm: the number of guns are UP and crime is down here.

The Heller decision here.

US gun-grabbing history here.

How the American Media Maggots view guns.

The UN definitely wants your guns, here.

How to shoot a handgun accurately by Massad Ayoob here.

Finally, a brief summary of federal gun control in the United States here.

So, ask yourself: if the statistics don’t bear out an America Gone Wild in terms of rampant gun violence, then what’s the point of stricter gun control laws?

Correct: because it’s not about gun control, it’s about People Control.

BZ

 

 

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Michael Savage wins landmark radio contractual civil case in federal court

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Michael SavageI’ve listened to Michael Savage (born in 1942, true name: Michael Alan Weiner, now 71) on and off for a number of years.  I used to listen to him broadcast on a local Sacramento station (KSTE) from his San Francisco-based studio at KSFO during PM drive.

I agreed wholeheartedly with his basic premise, which supported Borders, Language and Culture in the United States.

I believed he had a great  Message.  I also believed he was predominantly the wrong Messenger.

I thought that, as a Messenger, he mostly sucked.  I tired quickly of his forced laughs, his abuse of callers for sometimes little reason and, mostly — because I was in radio myself — his abuse of his local radio staff to include his producer, his interns, the board operators.  He had no relationship with his producers and support staff whatsoever.  They were nothing to him.  He denigrated them whenever they couldn’t yield whatever effect or cut or sound he demanded in seconds.  He would call for music then demand it to be shut down. His producers and staff had no names.  They were there to serve and serve only.

Limbaugh has a a relationship with Snerdley.  Hewitt has a relationship with Generalissimo.  Savage, like cats, simply had Staff.  And apparently poor ones at that.  Would I have worked for Savage, had I the current skills (as opposed to the remarkable skills I did possess in the analog age of the Production Room early 70s)?  Hell no.  I likely would have told him to go to Hell or given him a throat punch.  I would have taken his shit once and then left.  My guess: he went through producers like toilet paper.  Which is the reason, I’m guessing, that his producers were faceless.

He was a small man — physically — in a position of power and it showed.

There was little in him that was spontaneous.  His laughs were false, his umbrage was false, but his abuse of those immediately around him was true.

Some people liked him.  Frankly, I tired of him quickly, and the callers who did their level best to suck up to him.  In an absolutely unprecedented and naked way.  Because if you didn’t defer to him, you were toast.  He brooked little adversity.

That said, he didn’t acquire what he did via simpering and sniveling “consensus.”  He took the radio format by its neck and thrashed it to the point where he was the Number 3 broadcaster in the nation by 2006.

Since 2009, Savage has been barred from entering the United Kingdom, for allegedly “seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred“.[11][12][13][14]  Frankly, a bullshit claim by a weak nation immersed in politically correct pablum.

He left the general syndicated air in September of 2012 whilst in the throes of a lawsuit against his then-syndicator.

On May 2nd, he won his court case.

From WND.com:

In a ruling that is being compared to the case that led to free agency in baseball, a federal judge in California upheld an arbitration panel’s decision to release talk-radio host Michael Savage from a contract with his former syndicator, Talk Radio Network.

Savage’s lawyer, Dan Horowitz, called it a landmark case for talk radio.

“Michael is to talk radio what Curt Flood was to Major League Baseball,” Horowitz told WND, referring to the player who challenged baseball’s reserve clause, which kept a player bound to his team even after fulfillment of his contract.

Savage told WND the ruling “should free talent from the threats and extortionist behavior of ruthless Old-Hollywood types who can still be found in the corners of the radio industry.”

“For me, personally, it finalizes a struggle to perform for my audience in an atmosphere of freedom, not working on a ‘radio plantation,’” he said.

The federal court order is here.

WND writes:

Radio hosts, he (Dan Horowitz, attorney for Savage) explained, have been bound by restrictive clauses in their contracts that treat them like businesses instead of regular employees. The law, therefore, has allowed the networks to enforce non-compete agreements with radio hosts that would be illegal if applied to individual employees.

I say to Michael Savage: good for you.  Frankly, I’m glad you won your suit.  I won’t be listening to you any more, should you re-acquire terrestrial radio, because I immensely dislike you personally.  But, as an adherent of the First Amendment, I will always support your ability to say what you will.  And, as a cop, I will fight to the death for your ability to do so in my country, because I am an Oathkeeper.

I don’t have to like the Messenger.  But, Michael Savage, I will absolutely support your Message.

BZ

P.S.
In the meantime, HD radio continues to fail:

HD Radio Fails

 

 

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Florida sheriff: “We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government”

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From the PalmBeachPost:

Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., from occurring on his turf.

Bradshaw is readying a hotline and is planning public service announcements to encourage local citizens to report their neighbors, friends or family members if they fear they could harm themselves or others.

“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw said. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’ ”

Now, do the Logical Extension on this one.  .  .

BZ

 

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