Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Picture of Obama and his Ex

by Rodan ( 21 Comments › ) http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/01/22/picture-of-obama-and-his-ex/
Filed under Barack Obama, Media, Special Report at January 22nd, 2012 - 12:43 am

The media has trotted out Newt Gingrich's ex. They trotted out an alleged mistress of Herman Cain. Why are they so silent about Barack Husein Obama's ex?

How cute they look! Is Obama's ex still alive?

Update: Here's a video of Larry Sinclair describing his fling with Obama back in 1999

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Could You Just Imagine?

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Could You Just Imagine?

by catscanner150

Rush Limbaugh ponders running CNN

author-image by Joe Kovacs

PALM BEACH, Fla – No, it's not reality, but radio giant Rush Limbaugh today pondered the possibility of taking over the management of CNN and running things the El Rushbo way.

America's top-rated host was responding to a listener's question about how long it would take to turn the cable-news network around and make it similar to what Fox News is.

"A couple of days. Just the announcement that I was going to run CNN would add a million viewers a night," Limbaugh responded. "And then when we started making changes, it wouldn't take long at all."

CNN's viewership has been plunging recently, and according to Nielsen TV ratings data, it is now a distant third behind Fox News and MSNBC.

For example, on Monday night, May 14, Nielsen indicates Fox News had a prime-time audience of 2.08 million viewers. MSNBC had an estimated 835,000 and CNN had only 325,000.

Limbaugh spent a large portion of his show discussing the possibility of his being in charge at CNN.

"If it were announced that I were going to be running CNN, could you imagine the excrement storm from everywhere if that happened?" he asked rhetorically. "But the tune-in factor would be through the roof, the curiosity tune-in factor. Do any of you doubt that you could improve it? Every one of you thinks you can improve it. Just go show by show. Segment by segment. 'Nope, wouldn't have done that, here's the way to do that.' Segment by segment you could fix CNN."

He then got into specific steps he would take at CNN, saying it would not be difficult.

"Basically what I would do us have every editor there listen to this program, and then in prime time, everything we covered on this program would be treated as the news of the day, 'cause that's what I do. I do the news of the day. They ignore the stuff that we find on this program. I just put the news on that they don't find interesting or that they don't think is news. This is a broad, broad overview.

"Philosophically, what CNN's gotta do is decide who they want to be and then admit it. Right now, they've got themselves believing that they are objective, non-partisan journalists. They believe that MSNBC is liberal, that Fox is conservative and that they are Edward R. Murrow. …

"They also believe that the news should have no opinions while they're full of opinions," Limbaugh said with a chuckle. "The problem is they won't own up to their opinions, they won't admit to it. You've got to be competitive in the arena in which you choose to battle. And it's very clear what cable news has become. It's become personality-oriented opinion. Unabashed, fearless personality opinion. Anything else is pretense. And if you're going to do personality-oriented opinion and then deny that's what you're doing, then you're never gonna pull it off because people are going to realize you're not even being honest with yourself."

Limbaugh made it very clear, though, that no one should hold their breath waiting for him to ever run CNN.

"It'll never happen. Don't sweat it," he said.

Could you just imagine the mess from all those exploding heads in California, Oregon, Washington and D.C., and the northeast.

Tom in NC

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Fwd: [New post] Domestic Abuse Victim Convicted For Defending Herself: The Hypocrisy Of The ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law

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Domestic Abuse Victim Convicted For Defending Herself: The Hypocrisy Of The 'Stand Your Ground' Law

by Ann Werner

If ever the Stand Your Ground law in Florida had a chance of being applied fairly, that has gone out the window in the case of Marissa Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three who has been sentenced to 20 years for firing a warning shot at her abusive husband.

In the aftermath of the long-delayed arrest of Trayvon Martin's killer, it is incomprehensible that Alexander, who neither killed nor injured anyone, has been convicted of aggravated assault with a firearm and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Her husband, Rico Gray, a man with a documented history of abuse including an assault on her while she was pregnant, threatened to kill her nine days after the birth of their daughter. This time, Marissa wasn't going to put up with another beating. When threatened, she fired a warning shot into the ceiling to let Gray know that the abuse was over and he'd better think twice before coming after her again.

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He then ran into the street and claimed that she had threatened to kill him and his boys. On his word alone, she was arrested.

State Attorney Angela Corey, the same prosecutor who is prosecuting the Trayvon Martin case, offered a three-year sentence plea bargain but Alexander refused on the grounds that she had done nothing wrong. Alexander tried to invoke Florida's Stand Your Ground law but the judge refused.

Even though Gray recanted and even though Alexander's 11-year-old daughter took the stand and made a plea on her mother's behalf, the judge said that he had no choice but to sentence Alexander for at least 20 years.

This verdict poses serious questions about an already questionable law that is applied unevenly. Jacksonville Congresswoman Corrine Brown has stated that Alexander's case is a product of "institutionalized racism" and that she had been unable to locate a Stand Your Ground case where a black person is the beneficiary of the law. Alexander is a black woman. Brown will be calling for a national study by the U.S. Department of Justice or other entity to determine whether there are racial inequalities in the application of the Stand Your Ground defense.

In the meantime, Marissa Alexander faces a long time in prison with little hope of getting out.

There is an online petition to Florida Governor Rick Scott to grant a pardon to Marissa Alexander. You can sign it here: Pardon Marissa Alexander

Twitter: MsWerner Facebook: Author Ann Werner

Ann Werner | May 14, 2012 at 2:13 pm | Tags: Florida, institutional racism, Marissa Alexander, Stand Your Ground, trayvon martin; george zimmerman; neighborhood watch murder; sanford police; tracey martin; racism; hate crimes | Categories: News | URL: http://wp.me/p1w9KV-cJb

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Fwd: [LA-F] Climatic effects of a solar minimum

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Climatic effects of a solar minimum
by Staff Writers
Munich, Germany (SPX) May 08, 2012

An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in collaboration with Swedish and Dutch colleagues provide evidence for a direct solar-climate linkage on centennial timescales.

Using the most modern methodological approach, they analysed sediments from Lake Meerfelder Maar, a maar lake in the Eifel/Germany, to determine annual variations in climate proxies and solar activity.

The study was published online this week in Nature Geosience and reports the climatic change that occurred at the beginning of the pre-Roman Iron Age and demonstrates that especially the so-called Grand Minima of solar activity can affect climate conditions in western Europe through changes in regional atmospheric circulation pattern.

Around 2800 years ago, one of these Grand Solar Minima, the Homeric Minimum, caused a distinct climatic change in less than a decade in Western Europe.

The exceptional seasonally laminated sediments from the studied maar lake allow a precise dating even of short-term climate changes. The results show for a 200 year long period strongly increased springtime winds during a period of cool and wet climate in Europe.

In combination with model studies they suggest a mechanism that can explain the relation between a weak sun and climate change.

"The change and strengthening of the tropospheric wind systems likely is related to stratospheric processes which in turn are affected by the ultraviolet radiation" explains Achim Brauer (GFZ), the initiator of the study.

"This complex chain of processes thus acts as a positive feedback mechanism that could explain why assumingly too small variations in solar activity have caused regional climate changes."

Albeit those findings cannot be directly transferred to future projections because the current climate is additionally affected by anthropogenic forcing, they provide clear evidence for still poorly understood aspects of the climate system, emphasizes Achim Brauer.

In particular, further investigations are required with a focus on the climatic consequences of changes in different wavelengths of the solar spectrum.

Only when the mechanisms of solar-climate links are better understood a reliable estimate of the potential effects of the next Grand solar minimum in a world of anthropogenic climate change will be possible.

In this respect, well-dated annually laminated lake sediments are also in future of crucial importance for these studies.

Therefore, scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) and other institutions search for such archives around the world in order to to obtain a more accurate approach to the solar-climate relationship and the different regional responses.

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Re: The Case of the Missing Terrorists

Roberts' has a very prevaricate, distorted, skewed, inaccurate, and a typical revisionist history account of Yoo's, the "Rumsfeld Defense Department Working Group's" Memoranda.

As Bybee, Bradbury, Yoo and "Rumsfeld's Defense Department Working Group" Memoranda all attest, the modern day waterboarding was a Level III enhanced interrogation technique, which was done after all other techniques had failed, and was utilized on only three individals, who clearly knew that an iminent attack was going to take place in the United States, e.g.; a plane from Southeast Asia being targeted into a Los Angeles skyscraper, and a dirty bomb being set off in Washington D.C.

The waterboarding procedure, which took place for a maximum of 40 seconds, and never caused any pain, or any physical harm or mental harm, and was at all times monitored by both a medical doctor and a psychologist.

If the enhanced interrogation technique of waterboarding is 'torture', then how does one survive the procedure after 183 times, without revealing the information that is the purpose of the waterboarding, and without suffering some pain, suffering, or consequential harm?

As much as Roberts, and other Moonbats hate to address the real truth, the three (count em' 3!) individuals that were waterboarded, were not tortured.

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:03 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

"If you were a Muslim terrorist seeking retribution for Washington's crimes, would you try to smuggle aboard an airliner a bomb in your underwear or shoe in order to blow up people whose only responsibility for Washington's war against Muslims is that they fell for Washington's propaganda? If you wanted to blow up the innocent, wouldn't you instead place your bomb in the middle of the mass of humanity waiting to clear airport security and take out TSA personnel along with passengers? Terrorists could coordinate their attacks, hitting a number of large airports across the US at the same minute. This would be real terror. Moreover, it would present TSA with an insolvable problem: how can people be screened before they are screened?"

The Case of the Missing Terrorists
Paul Craig Roberts
May 14, 2012

If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead.

Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as "terrorists" for the bounty paid.

If Rodriguez's identity was previously a secret, it is no more. He has been on CBS "60 Minutes" taking credit for torturing Muslims and using the information allegedly gained to kill leaders of al Qaeda. If terrorists were really the problem that Homeland Security, the FBI and CIA claim, Rodriguez's name would be a struck through item on the terrorists' hit list. He would be in his grave.

So, also, would be John Yoo, who wrote the Justice (sic) Department memos giving the green light to torture, despite US and International laws prohibiting torture. Apparently, Yoo, a professor at the Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, was ignorant of US and international law. And so was the US Department of Justice (sic).

Notice that Rodriguez, "The Torturer of the Muslims," does't have to hide. He can go on national television, reveal his identity, and revel in his success in torturing and murdering Muslims. Rodriguez has no Secret Service protection and would be an easy mark for assassination by terrorists so capable as to have, allegedly, pulled off 9/11.

Another easy mark for assassination would be former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who staffed up the Pentagon with neoconservative warmongers such as Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, who in turn concocted the false information used to justify the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Rumsfeld himself declared members of al Qaeda to be the most vicious and dangerous killers on earth. Yet Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Richard Perle, together with neoconservative media propagandists, such as William Kristol and Max Boot, have been walking around safe for years unmolested by terrorists seeking revenge or bringing retribution to those responsible for as many as 1,000,000 Muslim deaths.

Condi Rice, Colin Powell, who delivered the Speech of Lies to the UN inaugurating the invasion of Iraq, and Dick Cheney, whose minimal Secret Service protection could not withstand a determined assassination attempt, also enjoy lives unmolested by terrorists.

Remember the deck of cards that the Bush regime had with Iraqi faces? If terrorists had a similar deck, all of those named above would be "high value targets." Yet, there has not been a single attempt on any one of them.

Strange, isn't it, that none of the above are faced with a terrorist threat. Yet, the tough, macho Navy Seals who allegedly killed Osama bin Laden must have their identity kept hidden so that they don't become terrorist targets. These American supermen, highly trained killers themselves, don't dare show their faces, but Rodriguez, Rumsfeld, and Condi Rice can walk around unmolested. Indeed, the Seals' lives are so endangered that President Obama gave up the enormous public relations political benefit of a White House ceremony with the heroic Navy Seals. Very strange behavior for a politician. A couple of weeks after the alleged bin Laden killing, the Seals unit, or most of it, was wiped out in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

If you were a Muslim terrorist seeking retribution for Washington's crimes, would you try to smuggle aboard an airliner a bomb in your underwear or shoe in order to blow up people whose only responsibility for Washington's war against Muslims is that they fell for Washington's propaganda? If you wanted to blow up the innocent, wouldn't you instead place your bomb in the middle of the mass of humanity waiting to clear airport security and take out TSA personnel along with passengers? Terrorists could coordinate their attacks, hitting a number of large airports across the US at the same minute. This would be real terror. Moreover, it would present TSA with an insolvable problem: how can people be screened before they are screened?

Or coordinated attacks on shopping malls and sports events?

Why should terrorists, if they exist, bother to kill people when it is easy to cause mayhem by not killing them? There are a large number of unguarded electric power substations. Entire regions of the country could be shut down. The simplest disruptive act would be to release large quantities of roofing nails in the midst of rush hour traffic in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco. You get the picture: thousands and thousands of cars disabled with flat tires blocking the main arteries for days.

Before some reader accuses me of giving terrorists ideas, ask yourself if you really think people so clever as to have allegedly planned and carried out 9/11 couldn't think of such simple tactics, plots that could be carried out without having to defeat security or kill innocent people? My point isn't what terrorists, if they exist, should do. The point is that the absence of easy-to-do acts of terrorism suggests that the terrorist threat is more hype than reality. Yet, we have an expensive, intrusive security apparatus that seems to have no real function except to exercise power over American citizens.

In place of real terrorists carrying out easy plots, we have "terrorist" plots dreamed up by FBI and CIA agents, who then recruit some hapless or demented dupes, bribing them with money and heroic images of themselves, and supplying them with the plot and fake explosives. These are called "sting operations," but they are not. They are orchestrations by our own security agencies that produce fake terrorist plots that are then "foiled" by the security agencies that hatched the plots. Washington's announcement is always: "The public was never in danger." Some terrorist plot! We have never been endangered by one, but the airports have been on orange alert for 11.5 years.

The federal judiciary and brainwashed juries actually treat these concocted plots as real threats to American security despite the government's announcements that the public was never in danger.

The announcements of the "foiled" plots keep the brainwashed public docile and amenable to intrusive searches, warrantless spying, the growth of an unaccountable police state, and endless wars.

The "War on Terror" is a hoax, one that has been successfully used to destroy the US Constitution and to complete the transformation of law from a shield of the people into a weapon in the hands of the state. By destroying habeas corpus, due process, and the presumption of innocence, the "War on Terror" has destroyed our security.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/05/14/the-case-of-the-missing-terrorists/

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