Just Plain Politics! - Political Debate Forums - Current Events Forum http://www.justplainpolitics.com/ Political forum for Current News Events. en Tue, 21 May 2013 17:10:06 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.justplainpolitics.com/images/misc/rss.png Just Plain Politics! - Political Debate Forums - Current Events Forum http://www.justplainpolitics.com/ OOOOOOOPS! poor Hillary! http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51571-OOOOOOOPS!-poor-Hillary!&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 16:52:55 GMT Gov’t Official (and Poet) Put on Leave After Benghazi Finally Breaks His Silence — and He’s Making Some Big Charges Against Hillary and Her Team... Gov’t Official (and Poet) Put on Leave After Benghazi Finally Breaks His Silence — and He’s Making Some Big Charges Against Hillary and Her Team
May. 21, 2013 10:26am Becket Adams



Raymond Maxwell Accuses Hillary Clintons Team of Making Him Scapegoat

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Getty Images)

Raymond Maxwell, one of four State Department employees recently disciplined by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, made headlines this month for penning slightly cryptic verses critical of the agency’s handling of the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.

And now Maxwell, who was placed on forced “administrative leave” despite his claim had no role in consulate-related security issues, is back in the news for ditching the poetry and outright accusing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of making him the Benghazi scapegoat.

“The overall goal is to restore my honor,” Maxwell said in an interview with The Daily Beast.

The former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, who is currently stuck in a sort of legal limbo, has filed grievances regarding his treatment by the State Department’s human resources bureau and the American Foreign Service Association, the report notes.

Maxwell is the only official in the bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (i.e. the group responsible for Libya) to lose his job over the September 11 attacks.

“I had no involvement to any degree with decisions on security and the funding of security at our diplomatic mission in Benghazi,” he said.

Maxwell was placed on forced “administrative leave” on December 18, the day after the Accountability Review Board released its report on the Benghazi attack. The department placed him on leave so that it could decide whether he should be permanently “let go.” However, here we are five months out and no decision has been made.

The disciplined State Department official sits at home and waits.

A department spokeswoman declined to comment on why Maxwell and three other State officials were disciplined, saying only that the ARB suggested someone be disciplined over the death of four Americans.

“As a matter of policy, we don’t speak to specific personnel matters,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told The Daily Beast.

Maxwell said the reason for him being put on leave has never been explained to him, he has never seen the classified portions of the ARB report that detail personnel failures leading up to the attack, and because his “administrative leave” is not a formal disciplinary action, he has no legal means to appeal his status.
Raymond Maxwell Accuses Hillary Clintons Team of Making Him Scapegoat

Raymond Maxwell.

And although he planned on retiring in September 2012, Maxwell remained at his post voluntarily so that he could assist the department in responding to the disastrous attacks. Now, after being singled out for the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, Maxwell refuses to let it go until his name has been cleared.

“They just wanted me to go away but I wouldn’t just go away,” he said. “I knew Chris [Stevens]. Chris was a friend of mine.”

“He is seeking a restoration of his previous position, a public statement of apology from State, reimbursement for his legal fees, and an extension of his time in service to equal the time he has spent at home on administrative leave,” the Daily Beast reports.

“For any FSO being at work is the essence of everything and being deprived of that and being cast out was devastating,” he said.

Maxwell said that soon after he was removed from his post, a State Department official visited him at his home one night and asked him to sign a letter acknowledging his removal and “forfeiting” his right to enter the State Department building.

He refused. He said that the letter amounted to an admission of guilt.

So who placed him on leave?

“The decision to place Maxwell on administrative leave was made by Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills, according to three State Department officials with direct knowledge of the events,” the report notes.

“On the day after the unclassified version of the ARB’s report was released in December, Mills called Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Beth Jones and directed her to have Maxwell leave his job immediately,” it adds.
Raymond Maxwell Accuses Hillary Clintons Team of Making Him Scapegoat

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But there may be a reason why Maxwell, of all people, was removed from his office the day after the release of the ARB report.

“One person who reviewed the classified portion of the ARB report told The Daily Beast that it called out Maxwell for the specific infraction of not reading his daily classified briefings, something that person said Maxwell admitted to the ARB panel during his interview,” the report claims.

“The crime that he is being punished for is not reading his intel,” this person said.

When asked about this specific claim, Maxwell said he has not been “officially counseled” on any wrongdoing and has not been allowed to read the ARB’s classified report.

But here’s his bombshell claim: Maxwell believes Hillary Clinton’s staff headed the review of the disastrous Benghazi attack – not an independent review board.

“The flaws in the process were perpetrated by the political leadership at State with the complicity of the senior career leadership,” he said. “They should be called to account.”

Click here to read the full report ]]> Current Events Forum patriot66 http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51571-OOOOOOOPS!-poor-Hillary! MORE QUICKSAND FOR THE REGIME http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51570-MORE-QUICKSAND-FOR-THE-REGIME&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 16:49:55 GMT http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/20/washington-times-writer-fox-news-scandal-goes-much-deeper-w-h-sitting-on-something-top-obama-aides-terrifie... http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...rrified-about/

Washington Times Writer: Fox News Scandal Goes ‘Much Deeper,’ W.H. Sitting on Something Top Obama Aides ‘Terrified’ About
May. 20, 2013 6:44pm Jason Howerton



Washington Times columnist and Drudge Report editor Joseph Curl on Monday said the Obama administration’s developing scandal involving the monitoring of Fox News reporter James Rosen’s email accounts goes “much deeper.”

Citing a “CIA source,” Curl claimed via his official Twitter account that the Fox News scandal was the “4th Shoe” and the White House is sitting on “something” that has top White House aides “terrified.”
CIA source says Fox News scandal the "4th Shoe"; says it goes much deeper; says WH also sitting on "something" that has top aides terrified.
Washington Times Writer: Fox News Scandal Goes Much Deeperabout 21 hours ago via Twitter for iPadReplyRetweetFavorite
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@josephcurl
Joseph Curl
... says only a few in WH know that "something" -- "It's been deep sixed, like Osama bin Laden." Will there be a Fifth Shoe?! #ImeldaObama
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"Uh, this your captain. Buckle up, Mr. President. Gonna' be a bumpy ride. Pretty socked in by this fog of scandal." http://t.co/GXBAmnfwDp
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Joseph Curl

TheBlaze will continue to monitor this story for additional details.

(H/T: Weasel Zippers) ]]> Current Events Forum patriot66 http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51570-MORE-QUICKSAND-FOR-THE-REGIME Should we hope this starts a trend? http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51568-Should-we-hope-this-starts-a-trend&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 16:12:54 GMT #killyourselfhomophobe http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/21/french-historian-kills-himself-notre-dame-gay-marriage Paris police have... #killyourselfhomophobe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...e-gay-marriage

Paris police have evacuated Notre Dame Cathedral after a former far-right activist killed himself in front of its main altar.

The man, Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but made no declaration before shooting himself through the mouth, the source said.

A note posted on his blog on Tuesday criticised a law passed by the Socialist government last week legalising same-sex marriage.

Notre Dame is one of the capital's most popular tourist attractions. ]]> Current Events Forum Professor Baxter http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51568-Should-we-hope-this-starts-a-trend Guns, and the State http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51567-Guns-and-the-State&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 15:36:18 GMT sorry to go all signlamankenneth and just post an image to make my point, but w/e Image: http://i.imgur.com/De6hrOs.jpg sorry to go all signlamankenneth and just post an image to make my point, but w/e

]]> Current Events Forum Skeleton Jelly http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51567-Guns-and-the-State Radical Christianity and their global agenda http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51566-Radical-Christianity-and-their-global-agenda&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 15:23:52 GMT In the Phillipines Catholics are busy fighting, not abortion, but access to birth control. Don't doubt that they would do the same here.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...ive-rights-law

And in the Congo they are branding children as witches and holding them in churches. It would probably be many decades before they tried to bring this back in the US but still you would think they would look to reform the sins of their faithful (if they thought it was a sin) rather than worrying about whether men do yucky stuff in private.

This is a widespread problem that I noted before and dirtbag pmp tried to deny. Of course, immoral scumbags, like pmp, will always claim that if a believer is doing something that offends him then they are not really Christian.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/46...go-kindoki.htm ]]> Current Events Forum Professor Baxter http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51566-Radical-Christianity-and-their-global-agenda How to make $30 billion and pay no corporate income tax, the Apple way http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51565-How-to-make-30-billion-and-pay-no-corporate-income-tax-the-Apple-way&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 14:13:06 GMT *Apple went to Ireland, and it found a pot of gold. Or more precisely, it managed to bring in $30 billion in overseas profits over a four-year period... Apple went to Ireland, and it found a pot of gold. Or more precisely, it managed to bring in $30 billion in overseas profits over a four-year period without paying a dime of corporate income tax to the Irish, American or any other national government.

That is one key conclusion in a new report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on the computer giant’s strategies for avoiding U.S. corporate income tax. It is a rare and detailed window into how multinationals juggle their international operations to avoid having to pay the taxman. This report may be about Apple, but the information it contains will sound familiar to anyone who has talked to tax lawyers or studied the 10-Ks of other major companies that do business around the world.

“Apple complies fully with both the laws and spirit of the laws,” the company said in prepared testimony on the matter it posted to its Web site (CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to testify Tuesday). “And Apple pays all its required taxes, both in this country and abroad.” Nothing in the report contradicts that assertion, and that is why what it reveals is all the more startling. This isn’t some rogue company playing fast and loose with the tax code. This is one of America’s most successful companies finding ways to shift things around, legally and in plain sight.

Here’s how it works:

Apple Operations International is registered in Cork, Ireland, but has “no physical presence at that or any other address,” according to the report. Indeed, the corporate entity has existed for 30 years and apparently never had a single employee. Of the three people on its board, all Apple employees, two live in California; 32 of its last 33 board meetings took place in Cupertino, and the Irish director participated in seven of them. Its assets are managed by a Nevada company, and held in bank accounts in New York.

It falls in a strange loophole: Because it is not managed and controlled in Ireland, that nation does not tax its earnings, even at the low Irish corporate income tax rate. And because it is not registered in the United States, it has owed no American taxes. It would be a little like an individual living in America and earning a living from investments in Ireland and thus being able to avoid paying taxes to either government—a strategy that decidedly would not work, by the way.
From 2009 to 2012, the Irish affiliate received $29.9 billion in dividend income. The upshot, according to the report: “According to Apple, AOI’s net income made up 30% of Apple’s total worldwide net profits from 2009-2011, yet Apple also disclosed to the Subcommittee that AOI did not pay any corporate income tax to any national government during that period.”

There is another clever strategy that Apple uses that the new report documents — holding a large chunk of its intellectual property in low-tax Irish affiliates as well. Think of it this way: If you live in, say, Germany and buy an IPhone, you are buying a physical object that was assembled in China from parts that come from all over. But you are also buying a piece of the intellectual property of Apple — a benefit from the labor of thousands of designers and programmers and marketers who are in California.

But Apple has no desire to pay high California and U.S. income tax on all its intellectual property. So instead, Apple Inc. shares that cost with its Irish affiliates in proportion to their sales. As the report puts it: “By structuring its intellectual property rights and distribution operations in the manner it did, Apple Inc. was able to avoid having worldwide Apple sales revenue related to its intellectual property attributed to itself in the United States where it would be subject to taxation in the year received. Instead, Apple Inc. arranged for a large portion of its worldwide sales revenue to be attributed to [Apple Service International] in Ireland. As explained earlier, according to Apple, Ireland has provided Apple affiliates with an income tax rate of less than 2% and as low as 0.05%.”

In its prepared testimony, Apple makes a point of emphasizing all the even more aggressive tax avoidance strategies it doesn’t pursue. “Apple does not use tax gimmicks. Apple does not move its intellectual property into offshore tax havens and use it to sell products back into the U.S. in order to avoid U.S. tax; it does not use revolving loans from foreign subsidiaries to fund its domestic operations; it does not hold money on a Caribbean island; and it does not have a bank account in the Cayman Islands.”

The subcommittee is investigating Apple’s tax strategies as part of a broader campaign for corporate income tax reform in the United States. The strategies it has pursued are not unique, not at the outer limits of the law, and involve one of America’s most prominent and successful companies. As such, it shows just how much work on the corporate tax code there is to do.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...the-apple-way/


:awesome:

Another of the liberals favorite companies explains how they avoided paying their fair share of taxes. ]]> Current Events Forum RazorX http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51565-How-to-make-30-billion-and-pay-no-corporate-income-tax-the-Apple-way Interesting Take on Govt Leaks http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51564-Interesting-Take-on-Govt-Leaks&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:42 GMT From Walter Pincus

"Whoever provided the initial leak to the Associated Press in April 2012 not only broke the law but caused the abrupt end to a secret, joint U.S./Saudi/British operation in Yemen that offered valuable intelligence against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

One goal was to get AQAP’s operational head, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso. That happened one day before the AP story appeared.

A second goal was to find and possibly kill AQAP bombmaker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, whose first underwear device almost killed Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia’s anti-terrorism chief. Soon after, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab used such a device in a failed Christmas Day bombing attempt as his Northwest Airlines flight was landing in Detroit.

The drone attack that killed Quso hadn’t occurred when AP reporters were checking out the leak and contacting government officials. Acting responsibly, the AP withheld its story for several days at the government’s request. Lives were at stake, officials said.

What happened afterward illustrates a sad state of affairs — within government (which can’t control critical secrets), the White House (which offered more information to shield itself from a wrong impression created by the AP story), politics (where every event during a presidential race becomes political fodder) and the press (which screams First Amendment at any attempt to investigate it).

There is a natural tension between journalists and the government over national security. There are many examples of administrations misusing secrecy to hide failures or promote successes. And there may be as many times when bad stories hurt clandestine operations.

Hitting targets in the United States is one of AQAP’s goals. In association with Saudi intelligence, the CIA inserted a Saudi who convinced AQAP that he wanted to be a suicide bomber. Eventually he was outfitted with Asiri’s newest device, which he was to use on a U.S. aircraft. After the device was delivered to U.S. officials, someone or several people leaked the information to the AP.

As journalists and politicians focus on what they say are too- broad subpoenas for records of 21 phone lines for AP offices and individuals, what’s lost is the damaging and criminal leak.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s initial comment to reporters last Tuesday that “it is within the top two or three most serious leaks that I’ve ever seen” has been rejected. Journalists have heard that over the years.

This is different.

The AP was working on a story where lives really could be at risk. Also at risk were the relationships between U.S., Saudi and British intelligence.

The AP responsibly held its story for five days when informed of national security issues. Although the news organization was informed about only part of the operation, the reality was that intelligence officials believed it had to be closed down immediately.

The AP story, when it first appeared, made no mention of how the United States obtained the new type of bomb. But by describing the event as the CIA halting an AQAP suicide-bombing plot, the story turned a clever clandestine operation into a negative political issue for the White House during the presidential campaign.

How? The AP story tied the foiling of an AQAP plot to White House press secretary Jay Carney’s statement the week before that assured “the American public that [the administration] knew of no al-Qaeda plots against the U.S. around the anniversary of bin Laden’s death.” The AP story implied that Carney’s statement was untrue. But Carney was right. This was a CIA ruse, not a terrorist-initiated plot.

Even during a “Face the Nation” appearance Sunday, AP President Gary Pruitt described the AP story as the United States thwarting “an al-Qaeda plot to place a bomb on an airliner” and Carney as being “misleading to the American public.”

From the start, the AP had placed the plot in the wrong context.

Responding after the AP story, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan held a media backgrounder to reassure the public that the United States was somehow “in control” of the situation. That triggered other media inquiries, which led to the administration explaining the Saudi double agent and other details. The authorized leak was to control political damage.

It was inevitable that the leak to the AP would generate an FBI probe. Given past leak investigations in the Bush and Obama administrations, journalists at the AP and elsewhere know they could face scrutiny. Like it or not, they are part of a crime. The leaker or leakers had taken an oath under the threat of prosecution to protect the information.

The current probe, after almost a year of exhausting other avenues, followed Justice Department guidelines and issued grand jury subpoenas for AP phone records. Did they overreach? There were five reporters and one editor listed on the initial story working out of different AP offices.

Should the AP have been told in advance so it could try to quash the subpoenas? It could delay the inquiry possibly for years if the AP went to court.

Having found my phone records caught up in criminal and civil case probes, such actions from government officials should not be a surprise.

But how many times can the media claim such an action is “chilling sources?” That was a claim during the Valerie Plame case under the Bush administration and repeatedly invoked as the Obama Justice Department has pursued leakers.

The risk of breaking the law apparently didn’t chill those who leaked the information to the AP. That’s what should be considered chilling.

The reality is that this is not a whistleblowing case. There are no heroes here, and the press in this instance was not protecting individuals trying to expose government malfeasance.

Full Article ]]> Current Events Forum Darla http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51564-Interesting-Take-on-Govt-Leaks Conspiracy Theories http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51562-Conspiracy-Theories&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:11 GMT Before anyone has a heart attack, I want to use a pull quote that I just know no one will get to: ---Quote--- Kathryn Olmsted, a historian at... Before anyone has a heart attack, I want to use a pull quote that I just know no one will get to:

Quote:
Kathryn Olmsted, a historian at the University of California, Davis, says that conspiracy theories wouldn’t exist in a world in which real conspiracies don’t exist.
I think this is a really interesting article.


Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories

In the days following the bombings at the Boston Marathon, speculation online regarding the identity and motive of the unknown perpetrator or perpetrators was rampant. And once the Tsarnaev brothers were identified and the manhunt came to a close, the speculation didn’t cease. It took a new form. A sampling: Maybe the brothers Tsarnaev were just patsies, fall guys set up to take the heat for a mysterious Saudi with high-level connections; or maybe they were innocent, but instead of the Saudis, the actual bomber had acted on behalf of a rogue branch of our own government; or what if the Tsarnaevs were behind the attacks, but were secretly working for a larger organization?

Full article ]]> Current Events Forum Darla http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51562-Conspiracy-Theories Justice Department NOW Targeting 3 Fox Reporters http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51559-Justice-Department-NOW-Targeting-3-Fox-Reporters&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 06:11:11 GMT How long is this going to go on before something big happens? I am beginning to really dislike Libs, before I merely did not like them much. They are... How long is this going to go on before something big happens? I am beginning to really dislike Libs, before I merely did not like them much. They are arrogant bastards who think that they can get away with anything, just read some of their BS on here. That is ok, the chickens will be coming home to roost, puk puk pukfukup'

"Report: Justice Department targeted TWO Fox News Channel reporters and a producer for talking with government sources"

"The Fox News Channel is outraged over new revelations that three of its reporting staffers were targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice in criminal investigations related to their attempts to obtain information from government sources.
James Rosen, the network's chief Washington correspondent, has become a First Amendment cause celebre over his treatment by the Obama administration. But the DOJ, Fox says, also investigated the Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter William La Jeunesse and Fox News producer Mike Levine.
Rosen, according to affidavits filed by FBI agents, was considered a possible criminal co-consp"


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2Tu9qEdmy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2Tu9Guc4S ]]> Current Events Forum SJJRSJJS http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51559-Justice-Department-NOW-Targeting-3-Fox-Reporters Obama Supporter Mary J. Blige ‘hit with $3.4 million IRS tax bill’ http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51558-Obama-Supporter-Mary-J.-Blige-‘hit-with-3.4-million-IRS-tax-bill’&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 04:15:18 GMT *Mary J. Blige ‘hit with $3.4 million tax bill’* Mary J. Blige’s financial troubles have gotten a whole lot worse. The singer has reportedly been... Mary J. Blige ‘hit with $3.4 million tax bill’

Mary J. Blige’s financial troubles have gotten a whole lot worse. The singer has reportedly been hit with a $3.4 million bill on top of the $900K she already owes the state of New Jersey.

TMZ reports that the IRS has filed a tax lien against the Grammy winner claiming that she’s avoided her income taxes for 2009 ($574,907.30), 2010 ($2,203,743.53) and 2011 ($647,604.60), putting her total owed to the government at a staggering $3,426,255.43.

The Post reported that the R&B singer was socked with a $901,769.65 tax lien in New Jersey back in February. Additionally, Bank of America sued her on Feb. 7 in Manhattan for defaulting on a $500,000 loan she took out in 2005 and stopped paying in 2012, according to records.

Blige — who owns an 18,000-square-foot manse in Saddle River, NJ, and another $2.5 million house in the Palisades overlooking Manhattan — was also hit with a $4,301 judgment for money she owed her Garden State landscaper, court papers showed.

The singer’s Saddle River home, which she bought for $12.5 million in 2008, — with property taxes on the swank spread of nearly $100,000 — has been on the market since 2011, with the asking price dropping from $14 million to $12.5 million.

Blige’s latest money woes are on top of more than $3 million the alleged deadbeat diva and her husband, Martin Isaacs, owe in defaulted mortgages, according to various banks that are also suing them.

Making matters worse, last May The Post first reported that Blige’s New York-based charity, set up to empower women, had not filed tax returns, had hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing donations, and had defaulted on a $250,000 TD Bank loan.

At the time, Blige said “The problem is that I didn’t have the right people in the right places doing the right things.”



ROFL

Typical Obama supporter, they never want to pay their fair share of taxes. ]]> Current Events Forum RazorX http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51558-Obama-Supporter-Mary-J.-Blige-‘hit-with-3.4-million-IRS-tax-bill’ <![CDATA[Damn he's good.]]> http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51555-Damn-he-s-good.&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 01:43:04 GMT Damn, Obama is good. Way to get non-scandal-gate-gate out of the news cycle. Nothing works better than dead children. Nothing. ---Quote--- A... Damn, Obama is good. Way to get non-scandal-gate-gate out of the news cycle. Nothing works better than dead children. Nothing.

Quote:
A tornado at least a half mile-wide with 200mph winds churned through Oklahoma City's suburbs Monday afternoon, killing at least 51 and causing significant property damage for the second day in a row, forcing rescue crews to search for survivors in the debris of flattened homes, businesses and two schools.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/...#ixzz2Tt3pLf3Q

I'm sorry for the death of those poor folks, although I find it ironic that Republican non scandal gates [and elections] get upstaged by extreme weather caused by the very phenomena they deny. ]]> Current Events Forum Sierra http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51555-Damn-he-s-good. Only 25 percent of Americans are qualified??? http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51553-Only-25-percent-of-Americans-are-qualified&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 01:07:07 GMT *http://rt.com/usa/military-service-fit-american-449/* Image:... http://rt.com/usa/military-service-fit-american-449/



If this was World War Two, we would be f*cked!!! ]]> Current Events Forum signalmankenneth http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51553-Only-25-percent-of-Americans-are-qualified No money for Benghazi secruity...... http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51552-No-money-for-Benghazi-secruity......&goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 00:40:11 GMT According to Hillary Clinton’s long-delayed Benghazigate testimony, the State Department just did not have enough money to provide security for a mission in one of the most dangerous places in the world.

It did however have 16 million dollars to spend on 2,500 kindle book readers at the drastically inflated price of $6,600 per device.
How much security could that 16 million buy?

It had $79,000 to spend on Obama’s books and $20,000 on a portrait of Obama. The US Embassy had $150,000 to spend on a book about the ambassador’s residence.
The US Embassy in Austria had $150,000+ for a Chevy Volt and its charging station.

Hillary’s State Department did have money for…

7.9 billion dollars for Obama’s Global Health Initiative.

1 billion for global climate change.

2.2 billion to strengthen democratic institutions in Pakistan.

And of course… Mosque renovations.

In 2011 the State Department provided funds to restore the 15th century Gobarau Minaret in Katsina State in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, an area which has become a virtual killing field for Christians at the hands of Muslim militants, led by the al-Qaeda-linked terror group Boko Haram.

And $4.5 million for Art in Embassies

The New York Times reported in 2009 that Art in Embassies spends about $4.5 million a year for permanent art acquisitions; chief curator Virginia Shore said at the time that artists and dealers support the program via favorable pricing; for the embassy in Beijing, an outlay of $800,000 yielded works with an appraised value of $30 million.

How much Benghazi security would 800,000 dollars have bought? If Hillary Clinton had stopped buying paintings, maybe four Americans would still be alive today.

The State Department also has a Chief Diversity Officer, whose job it is to warn that “holding the fort” is a racist phrase.
As far as security goes, 200 million dollars were wasted on Iraqi police training that never went anywhere.

The State Department just had no money in its 50 billion dollar budget to pay for Benghazi security. None at all.

http://tinyurl.com/b5bd7xs ]]> Current Events Forum NOVA http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51552-No-money-for-Benghazi-secruity...... God Did What? http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51550-God-Did-What&goto=newpost Mon, 20 May 2013 23:20:33 GMT Where does the right find these nutcases?

And how many of you believe her?

]]> Current Events Forum Howey http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51550-God-Did-What Obama somehow got more popular after a week of scandals! http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51548-Obama-somehow-got-more-popular-after-a-week-of-scandals!&goto=newpost Mon, 20 May 2013 22:55:27 GMT Image: http://allhatnocattle.net/blog7/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-party-of-personal-assassination.jpg *Poll: Scandals Not Sticking to Obama...

Poll: Scandals Not Sticking to Obama

A new CNN/ORC International poll… It shows that Obama’s approval rating hasn’t changed very much despite all the coverage of the scandals. Fifty-three percent of Americans said they approve of the job Obama is doing, while 45 percent disapprove. This is comparable to his rating in early April, when 51 percent approved and 47 percent disapproved of his job performance.

I want to take the time to thank the Republicans for making President Barack Hussein Obama more popular than when he was re-elected. ]]> Current Events Forum signalmankenneth http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?51548-Obama-somehow-got-more-popular-after-a-week-of-scandals!