The Wikileaks Weasel’s Warning

Per the New York Post, the WikiLeaks Weasel, Julian Assange, has disseminated across the World Wide Web, an encrypted file full of uncensored documents published by our Government. These files are thought to include classified information on British Petroleum and Guantanamo Bay.

According to The London Sunday Times, a file called the “insurance” file, has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of innumerable Wikileaks supporters, from America to Australia.

Per the girly man in question, any government that tries to stop his unethical actions will face dealing with a new deluge of state and commercial secrets.

The unpublished military papers on Guantanamo Bay are believed to have been supplied by the American traitor Pfc. Bradley Manning.  Assange has also been confirmed to have confirmed to have an aerial video of an U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, BP files, and Bank of America documents.

One of the key files available for all to download, named insurance.aes256, is encrypted with a 256-digit key. It has been deemed virtually unbreakable by experts.

The Weasel has stated that he can divulge the classified documents in the insurance file and similar backups if he is arrested or the WikiLeaks website is taken off the internet. He has hinted the contents are unredacted. This information has a lot of the America’s allies concerned for the safety of their countries.

The girly man petulantly warned:

We have over a long period of time distributed encrypted backups of material we have yet to release. All we have to do is release the password to that material, and it is instantly available.

The file is 1.4 gigabytes, big enough for a compressed version of all the files to be released this year, along with additional data.

Sunday morning, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he hopes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be prosecuted for the disclosures.

According to McConnell, the online release of secret diplomat exchanges has done “enormous damage” to the country and to its relationship with its allies.

He also says that if it’s found that Assange hasn’t violated the law, then the law should be changed.

However, McConnell doesn’t mince words about the Wikileaks Weasel.  He said:

I think the man is a high-tech terrorist.

As reported on thehill.com, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that the administration is mainly to blame for the massive amounts of classified information that has become public through the actions of the Wikileaks Weasel.

According to Gingrich, the leaks are “a scandal of the first order” and that they demonstrate the Obama administration is “shallow” and “amateurish” when it comes to national security:

You have a private first class who downloads a quarter million documents, and the system doesn’t say, ‘Oh, you may be over extended?’ I mean, this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order.

This administration is so shallow and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous.

Gingrich also said that the U.S. had better act fast in shutting down WikiLeaks and finding Julian Assange:

Information warfare is warfare, and Julian Assange is engaged in warfare. Information terrorism, which leads to people getting killed, is terrorism, and Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism. He should be treated as an enemy combatant.

Last Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Baghdad Bob Gibbs, when asked about the Wikileaks Weasel, proclaimed that the Administration was not afraid of “one guy with a laptop”.

Last night, the person in charge of America’s Foreign Relations, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, continued this theme of levity about this serious situation at a reception she hosted for recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.

Clinton gushed that she found it extraordinary to greet so many talented people. She then quipped:

I am writing a cable about it, which I’m sure you’ll find soon on your closest website.

She doesn’t seem too embarrassed by her and the Administration’s amateurish performance, does she?

I wonder if this anti-American President and his administration secretly are pleased that the leaking of classified material might actually succeed in doing what their Foreign Policy has been aimed at all along….moving America from her position of Protector of the Free World to just another country.   I’m not saying that the President wants to put any of our military or covert operatives in harm’s way to achieve that purpose.  But, given the rhetoric that we’ve all heard coming from this administration for the last two years, I do not think that they view America being taken down a peg or two by the Wikileaks Weasel as necessarily a bad thing.  Gather all the information concerning their reaction to the leaks for yourself.  It’s an unavoidable conclusion.  Classified documents are being leaked and these pinheads are making  jokes about it and seem to be taking the whole situation very lightly.

In the past, Pfc. Manning would have already been on the receiving end of a 21 gun salute and the Wikileaks Weasel would have mysteriously expired from a severe case of cranial lead poisoning.

But, that was back when we had an Administration who did not want to radically change our country.

Stealing Christmas

I remember it as if it was yesterday.  Daddy and I were sitting on the hardwood floor of the living room, playing with the Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots that Santa had brought me.   He was still in his gray Sears uniform with the round red Sears emblem, having come home from work. Some of my aunts and uncles were sitting around, watching us play.  The Christmas tree was standing there, in all of its silver aluminum majesty, alternating between red, yellow, blue, and green, as the color wheel spun around.

That’s just one of a number of great Christmas memories that God has blessed me with over the years.

Some children, up in Chicago, have had some of their future Christmas memories stolen from them.

Thugs set fire to a van on the South Side of Chicago last month belonging to the charity Kidz Korna.  Each Christmas, the charity gives away thousands of presents to hundreds of area children.

The charity helps children who’ve been exposed to violence and child abuse.

Volunteers now worry they won’t be able to get enough gifts for children in need.  They are hoping someone steps forward before it’s too late.

Chicago mayoral hopeful Dock Walls said:

If someone has a van, one van, two vans, it doesn’t matter. They have a huge, huge, huge heart and they can deliver to a lot of kids if we enable them to do that. Christmas is more than just a holiday, it’s a tradition that services children and gives them hope.

Kidz Korna has been helping children in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood since 1995.

It’s not just the criminals among us that seem to have a Grinch-like spirit within them this Christmas.

According to star-telegram.com, Chase Bank has told a  Southlake, Texas businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it might offend people.

Antonio Morales, who owns the Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had taken the time to put together and decorate a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard.performing a favor for the branch manager, one of his clients.

The tree stayed  in the bank lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until last Tuesday.   According to Morales, his friend called him Wednesday and told him the tree had to go.  She had him come to the branch and showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase.  Chase proclaimed that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it.

When the Star-Telegram asked the branch what the big deal was, the bank referred questions to their corporate offices.

According to Greg Hassell, a JPMorgan Chase spokesman, the company’s policy isn’t anti-Christmas:

People wish their customers merry Christmas when it’s appropriate.

Uh huh.  And a Bah, Humbug to you, too, sir.

He went on to say that, to ensure that everyone who visits Chase branches feels welcome and comfortable, the bank’s policy is to use only decorations supplied by the company.

Hassell said:

We appreciate the thoughtful gesture from Mr. Morales.  Unfortunately, we’re unable to keep it [the tree] on display for the remainder of the holiday season.   According to this politically correct individual, JPMorgan Chase ensures that decorations are “something everyone is comfortable with, regardless of how they celebrate the season”.

What’s Christmas without a tree?

The spokeswoman for Trinity Bank in Fort Worth, Texas said it has had a tree in its lobby since the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Linda Robinson, Assistant Vice-President for the bank, said:

I’ve been in this business more than 30 years, and every place I’ve worked we’ve put up a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.

Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the American Family Association, called Chase’s decision absurd:

According to Advertising Age, 91 percent of American people celebrate Christmas.  That means that the single most inoffensive thing you can do at this time of year is wish someone a merry Christmas.

Fischer said that companies that have gotten away from acknowledging Christmas claim that they do it because they want to be inclusive:

The most inclusive thing you can do is wish someone merry Christmas.  This means that Chase is running the risk of offending far more people by disrespecting Christmas than they are by honoring it.

Hassell said that the Southlake branch was supplied with stickers that resemble Christmas lights. Company-supplied decorations vary at other branches, he said:

Normally they’re small, not intrusive. I’m not sure this [Morales’] Christmas tree was intrusive. That’s not really the issue here. It isn’t a company-supplied decoration.

Yeah, right, Ebenezer.

According to Hassell, the policy has been around for a few years, and that decorations change every year.

Morales loves Christmas.  In fact, he enjoys the Christmas season so much that he decorated 35 trees at his home.

He said:

I’m known for my Christmas trees

In fact, Morales even decorated his plastic surgeon’s office.

According to Senor Navidad:

I put a tree up in his office. It doesn’t offend him, and he’s Jewish.

Isn’t Mr. Morales great?  I hope more Americans get the Christmas Spirit this year like he has.  The politically correct Progressives and the bitter, maladjusted thugs seem determined to ruin Christmas in America.  What these tremendously lost individuals do not seem to understand is that Christmas is not just a holiday designed to grow the coffers of retailers or satisfy avarice.  It is way more than that.  What is Christmas all about?  Allow me to present a video featuring an expert.  Merry Christmas! 

Lame Duck Desperation

Right before President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) left on an unexpected trip to visit the troops in Afghanistan yesterday, the grim news was released by the Labor Department that U.S. employers added just 39,000 payroll jobs in November, down from the previous month.

The report surprised all the pinheaded bureaucrats and academicians in the Administration, as all recent indicators had seemed to be touting fairly optimistic numbers, from retail sales to housing. The Federal Government on Friday had, in fact, revised jobs data for September and October to show stronger numbers in those months, even though the new numbers showed a nominal rise, at best.

Y’see, it turns out that while Employers may not be laying off as many people (mainly, because there’s no one left to lay off), they are not hiring anyone either, because consumers are not spending.  Private-sector employers added just 50,000 jobs last month, offsetting the 11,000 drop in government employment driven by local budget cuts.

The fact remains that 15.1 million people are officially unemployed, joining millions more on the sidelines who have given up searching for work.  As of last month, there were more than 6.3 million people who had been out of work for six months or more, up 100,000 from the prior month.

But…but…Obama promised that the Porkulus Bill would solve all this, didn’t he? 

Glad you asked.  Check out this prediction, directly from a white paper published by the incoming administration in January of 2009:

In the absence of stimulus, the economy could lose another 3 to 4 million more. Thus, we are working to counter a potential total job loss of at least 5 million. As Figure 1 shows, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.

Second, as emphasized above, there is considerable uncertainty in our estimates: both the impact of the package on GDP and the relationship between higher GDP and job creation are hard to estimate precisely. In light of the substantial quarter-to-quarter variation in the estimates of job creation, we believe a reasonable range for 2010Q4 is 3.3 to 4.1 million jobs created.

As Maxwell Smart used to say:

Missed it by that much!

Has there ever been an administration and a Congress who have screwed up the American Economy so badly…intentionally or unintentionally? 

And, instead of looking for ways to jumpstart our economy, they want to shackle those who make the engine of our economy run, our business owners, with higher taxes.

Today, the Senate is voting on two doomed measures in an exercise of desperation by a Democratic Party feverishly trying to appease its base..

One of the votes is on a proposal to extend all expiring tax cuts on individuals with incomes of less than $200,000 a year and married couples making less than $250,000. The other vote proposes to renew the tax cuts for all tax filers with incomes of less than $1 million.

According to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, nothing will be passed today:

All of this finger-pointing is doing nothing to create jobs. It’s a total waste of time.

Democrats are responding with a vote to slam job creators with a massive tax increase. Millions of out-of-work Americans don’t want show-votes or finger-pointing contests. They want jobs.

Republicans are standing firm on no tax increases whatsoever, on any income level.  Neither Democratic proposal is likely to get the 60 votes needed to advance.

These votes may be signalling a beginning to the two parties working out some sort of compromise, in order to get some sort of tax cut extension passed before the Christmas Holidays close this session.

Obama has said that he is willing to compromise.  Of course, when Scooter says compromise, he means on your part, not his.

In the weekly address from the White House, our brilliant Vice-President Joe (Stand up, Chuck!) Biden said:

We’ve got to extend the tax cuts for the middle class that are set to expire at the end of the month. If we don’t, millions of middle-class families will see a big bite out of their paychecks starting January 1. And that’s the last thing we should let happen.

Translation:  Hey Republicans, you had better play along with us, or we’re going to make you guys look like you don’t care about Americans.

Those poor, oblivious Democrats.  They just don’t seem to realize that the American people have already passed sentence on them on November 2nd.  Their every move in this Lame Duck Congress reeks of desperation.  Their time has run out, as their last shred of decency did a long time ago.

All their grandiose plans for the Lame Duck Session, such as the SMART Missile Defense Act, the Dream (Amnesty) Act, and their attempt to hide their fiscal irresponsibility through the biggest tax hike in U.S. History are all going up in flames, like a Yule log.

Somebody pass the popcorn.

I’m 52 and I’m Fed Up.

I’m 52 years old today.  It has been a remarkable journey.   Some years have passed by much too quickly.  Others have been as slow and painful as the Rosie O’Donnell Variety Show.   Some of the lessons that God has taught me have been more painful than others.  But, through it all, His Grace has been sufficient for my every need.

I’ve always had a big mouth.  One of the most painful lessons I’ve had to learn is when to keep it shut.  However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed that those who seek to impose their will on us, as a free nation, appear to be doing and saying whatever outrageous, hurtful, treasonous, and unpatriotic things that they want to, counting on all of us average, Christian Americans (75% of the population, per Gallup) to keep our collective mouths shut.

Well, you know what?  I’m 52 and I’m fed up.

I’m fed up with less than 10 % of our population being so self-involved and bitter in their belief that all of this fantastic Universe around us just happened, that they try to make Christians as bitter as they are.  Especially, this time of year as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour. 

These learned individuals completely ignore the writings of brilliant men, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said:

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

or G. K. Chesterton, who said:

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing.  They believe in anything.

I’m fed up with a bunch of amoral, treasonous hyenas controlling the entertainment industry.  These are the brilliant individuals who have brought us such cinematic masterpieces as Redacted and The Golden Compass and such high brow television entertainment like My Dad Says @#$% ! 

In the music industry, the song  @#$% You! (which is being sung on Glee as Forget You!) is being honored for an industry award. 

I can remember when The Rolling Stones had to change the words to their hit, Let’s Spend the Night Together to Let’s Spend Some Time Together on The Ed Sullivan Show because of the CBS Censors.

I’m fed up with spoiled, crybaby professional athletes.  Some idiot the other day tweeted (that’s a whole other subject) that he was mad at God for making him drop a pass.  That crybaby should get on his knees and thank God every day for allowing him to make obscene amounts of money, playing a game that most of us are restricted to playing with family and friends in our front yard.

New York Giants Safety Andrel Rolle told the media that the fans should not be booing them for being a lousy football team, because they’re like American soldiers reeturning from Iraq…or something.

Gimme a break.

I’m fed up with the Liberal Media and Conservatives, too, who ought to know better after suffering all these years, unmercifully attacking Sarah Palin two years away from a Presidential Election that she hasn’t even announced her intentions for, yet.

There was story on Fox and Friends this morning about folks who camped out overnight  at one of her book signings.  She really does connect with a lot of average Americans.

By the way, has Mitt Romney endorsed anyone in the 2010 Midterm Elections, yet?

I’m fed up with the Obama’s, and the pinheaded bureaucrats and academicians in their administration who believe that they have the right to tell us how to raise and what to feed our children.  San Francisco has voted to take the toys out of kids’ McDonald’s Happy Meals! 

These are our children and grandchildren.  We will raise them as we see fit.

Not only do they want to tell us what we can feed to our children, they want to control what we eat.  In New York City, Mayor Bloomberg wants to ban salt from restaurants.  What?  Banning Trans Fat and making french fries, potato chips, and popcorn taste different wasn’t enough?

I’m 52 years old. If I want to have Popeye’s Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes, fried okra, and biscuits, it’s none of your dadblamed business, Michelle (ma belle).  People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.  Have you surveyed your own Southern flank lately?

Finally, I’m fed up with Obama, his administration, his political party, and Congress.  These people are so riddled with self-importance, and so intellectually constricted by their self-imposed boundaries of the Beltway Elite society that they live in, that they have completely lost touch with the citizens of the country that they are supposed to represent.  They somehow believe that it is in their best interests to govern on behalf of the 18 % of Americans who identify themselves as being Liberals.  And those that don’t really believe in this Liberal/Progressive/Marxist ideology, don’t seem to possess the intestinal fortitude to man up and actually serve the people who elected them.

One would have thought that the Political Massacre on November 2nd would have gotten their attention.  However, judging from their actions since they got back to work Monday, this oblivious pack of political scavengers seem bound and determined to gnaw as much meat off of the bones of the American Dream as they can before the Big Dog of American Conservatism returns to Washington in January.

However, as fed up as I am, I always have hope.  My hope springs not from any political figure or political ideology, but from the One who created me and loves me, in spite of all my shortcomings.  This video of one of my favorite songs sums up what I’ve been trying to say.   God is good.  All the time.  May God bless you all.

Battling the Tyranny of the Minority

As I was trying to choose what to write about this morning, a hard, cold fact struck my simple mind:  We are living in a country that has been suffering under the tyranny of a minority. 

Not a racial minority, mind you, but an ideological one.

Allow me to throw some numbers at you:

75 % of Americans self-identify as being Christians.

This country was founded by a group of Christians, seeking freedom from a state-run religion and the tyranny of a massive and oppressive Regime that was overtaxing them to the point of annihilation.  Sound familiar?

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson, as Vice-President, signed legislation authorizing the use of the new Capitol building as a church.

Did you know that the United States Capitol regularly served as a church building?  The practice began even before Congress officially moved into the building and lasted until well after the Civil War.

Please take the time to watch this informative 8-minute video:

54 % of Americans are politically Conservative.

This poll was taken by Gallup, right before the Midterm Elections.  It shows that the majority of Americans believe in the Conservative principles of limited government, and American self-determination.

36 % identify themselves as Republicans,  34.7% as Democrats.  This is the first Republican lead ever. 

Rasmussen Reports published this yesterday.  I believe that the gap is actually wider than that.  The move to the Far Left by the Democrat Party has completely removed them from the ideological stance of the average American.

67% of Americans believe that this country is heading in the wrong direction.  88 % of The Beltway Elite believe just the opposite.

Just listen to President Barack Hussein Obama and all his minions.  You would think everything is just peachy.

58% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.

When Nancy Pelosi said:

 We have to pass the bill so that we’ll know what is in it. 

Did anybody else want to kick their television?

This was crammed down the throats of Americans, as if we were too stupid to know what we wanted, as a country

And now, somehow, some of the Republican Congresscritters have gotten it in their heads that there needs to be a compromise on some parts of this Obamanation, instead of defending, repealing, and replacing it.

Pay attention, boys,  You can be voted out, too.

44.7% was Obama’s Job Approval Rating for Obama’s 7th Quarter of his Presidency.  This was a new all-time low, according to Gallup.

And yet, this Alinsky-ite continues to keep the pedal to the metal, forsaking our American Heritage in order to achieve his Socialist Utopian Dream of radically changing the greatest country in the world.

He has intentionally misconstrued the results of the Midterms to mean that Americans want our politicians to work together to pass all of his ideologically driven legislation.

Far from it, Scooter.  Americans just want them to stop you in your quest to turn the Shining City on a Hill into a Third-World Barrio.

The good news is that you’ll have more time to work on your golf game in 2 years. 

57% of Americans say that they are happy.

It’s simple.  The happiness of Americans does not come from the Nanny-state, out-of-control Federal Government of President Barack Hussein Obama.  Americans’ happiness originates from the same Creator that endowed each and every one of us with our inalienable rights.  He has given us, as Americans, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Americans, through His grace, and the love and support of our families and friends, are working to achieve and enjoy those rights everyday. 

When those in power seek to be the Creator of those inalienable rights, they are doomed to failure.  Please reference the Roman Empire and the U.S.S.R. as examples.

The majority of Americans have a great deal in common, Ties That Bind, if you will.  As our external enemies discovered after their cowardly attack on September 11th, 2001, Americans will come together when our neighbors and families are being harmed and our freedom is at stake.

The tyrannical minority who have been ruling with impunity saw a small sampling of Americans’ independent spirit and resolve to remain free on November 2nd, 2010.  So far, they seem blinded by their ideology and own self-importance.

They underestimate Americans.  The tyrannical always have.

“What We’ve Got Heah is Failure to Communicate”

On November 2nd, 2010. Conservative Americans sequestered themselves in voting booths across the land and sent what we thought was an unmistakable message to the rascals in Washington, D.C. 

Either it wasn’t as clear as we thought, the Progressives are in denial, or their Progressive ideology trumps their oath of public service.

In the following video clip from the House of Representatives on Monday, the presiding speaker was California’s Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson.

Indiana Republican Rep. Steve Buyer sought to be recognized to speak for five minutes about some pending veterans legislation. The dense Democrat, after conferring with someone unknown, said no.

He then revised his request to one minute.

Richardson, obviously clueless and getting directions from someone off-camera, said no again.

Buyer grew outraged that one sitting representative was highhandedly refusing to recognize another, even for one minute.

Exasperated, he declared to this waste of a House seat:

This is why the American people have thrown you out of power.

Here’s the video.  You need to watch this:

The Democrat/Liberal/Progressive cluelessness extends all the way up to the highest office in the land.  No surprise, I know.

President Obama and Republican leaders met yesterday in the much-ballyhooed (at least by the White House) Slurpee Summitt. The spin resulting from the meeting is that it was productive even though there was no agreement reached on extending tax cuts for Americans or ratifying the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the top two items on the agenda.

President Barack Hussein Obama reported after the meeting that:

Today we had the beginning of a new dialogue that I hope — and I’m sure most Americans hope — will help break through the noise and help produce gains. And as we all agreed, that should begin today because there’s some things we need to get done in the weeks before Congress leaves town for the holidays.

Scooter wants Turbo Tax Tim Geithner and Lew Clark to work with Republicans on a compromise to extending the tax cuts. He also wants Congress to extend unemployment benefits that expired yesterday, and he said that they also discussed tax credits for college tuition, tax breaks for working families and a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers.

Obama said:

None of this is going to be easy. We have two parties for a reason. There are real philosophical differences, deeply held principles to which each party holds.

Although the atmosphere in today’s meeting was extremely civil, there’s no doubt that those differences are going to remain no matter how many meetings we have. And the truth is, there will always be a political incentive against working together, particularly in the current hyperpartisan climate.

We understand these aren’t times for us to be playing games. … I think there was a sincere effort on the part of everybody involved to commit to work together and try to solve the problems.

You should know a lot about the “hypersensitive climate” in Washington, Scooter.  Your personal arrogance and blindly ideological Far Left political mission that you have forced down the nation’s throats, is responsible for it.

Two weeks before the election, gallup.com issued a poll stating that 54 % of Americans were Conservative, 27 % Moderate (Independent), and 18 % Liberal.

For Obama and the Dems to continue pushing a Far Left, socialist agenda in the wake of the crushing defeat that they suffered on November 2nd, is an exercise in self-deluding arrogance that even Narcissus himself would be proud of.

Obama’s spin on the Midterm Electoral Massacre of his political party is that Americans want more co-operation in Washington between their elected representatives.  By co-operation, Obama means co-operation in passing his ideologically driven agenda designed to turn American into some sort of Nanny-State Socialist Utopia where everybody “shares the wealth”.

In other words:  “I’m smarter than you, so shut up”, he explained.

This arrogance manifested as cluelessness does not provide a flattering image of the president to Americans or the rest of the world.  His poll numbers continue to plunge, as more examples of his amateurish leadership abilities continue to surface.  His Alfred E. Newman (What, me worry?) response to the Wikileaks Document Dump and his tone-deafness as to the real wishes of the American people, show to the world and the people that he was elected to serve, that he does not intend to take the Midterm shellacking to heart and move to the middle, as Bill Clinton did in 1994.

He remains a Far Left ideologue determined to radically change America…regardless of the wishes of the American people.

Strother Martin said it best in Cool Hand Luke:

Document Dumps and Weak Responses

Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart reported two “Well, Duuh” statements concerning the administration’s reaction tho the latest Wikileak Document Dump masterminded by girly man Julian Assange.

First, according to Breitbart, the White House on Monday said WikiLeaks and others behind the release of a flood of confidential diplomatic memos were “criminals” and that President Barack Obama was decidedly “not pleased.”

Press Secretary Baghdad Bob Gibbs said the people who released some 250,000 classified State Department memos were “criminals, first and foremost” who had committed a “serious” offense.

Gibbs said:

This is a serious violation of the law, a serious threat to individuals that both carry out and assist in our foreign policy.

According to his Press Secretary, Obama was decidedly “not pleased” by the release.

Second, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that his department will prosecute anyone found to have violated U.S. law in the leaks of classified government documents by online whistleblower WikiLeaks.

According to Holder:

This is not saber-rattling.

Holder said at a news conference yesterday, that the Wikileaks Document Dump, puts at risk the security of the nation, its diplomats, intelligence assets and U.S. relationships with foreign governments and

To the extent that we can find anybody who was involved in the breaking of American law, who put at risk the assets and the people I have described, they will be held responsible; they will be held accountable.

He went on to call the WikiLeaks probe “an active, ongoing criminal investigation.”

According to Assange, his crusade to release  America’s classified information is only beginning and these recent documents were meant to expose “lying, corrupt and murderous leadership from Bahrain to Brazil.”

Assange wrote an e-mail to ABC News from an undisclosed location, saying:

We’re only one thousandth of the way in and look at what has so far being revealed. There will be many more.

Assange brushed aside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement that the dump of secret documents “puts people’s lives in danger”:

U.S. officials have for 50 years trotted out this line when they are afraid the public is going to see how they really behave. The facts are that we wrote to the State Department asking for a list of any specific concerns that might have. They refused to assist, and said they demanded everything, including those documents that revealed abuses, be destroyed.

So, why hasn’t the Federal Government already taken care of this weasel, who seems quite pleased with himself for endangering the lives of Americans and our allies?

In her latest post on Facebook, Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin asks some pretty sharp questions about this situation:

…what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?

What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?

Most importantly, serious questions must also be asked of the U.S. intelligence system. How was it possible that a 22-year-old Private First Class could get unrestricted access to so much highly sensitive information? And how was it possible that he could copy and distribute these files without anyone noticing that security was compromised?

The White House has now issued orders to federal departments and agencies asking them to take immediate steps to ensure that no more leaks like this happen again. It’s of course important that we do all we can to prevent similar massive document leaks in the future. But why did the White House not publish these orders after the first leak back in July? What explains this strange lack of urgency on their part?

We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms. They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.

Yes, ma’am.  It would be great.  Unfortunately, we can’t.  In the past, Mr.  Assange would possibly have already met with a mysterious end, such as a fatal case of cranial lead poisoning, and Pfc. Manning would be the recipient of a military trial, followed by a blindfold, a cigarette, and a 21-gun salute.

While it is true that Manning is indeed locked up in a military jail, facing a trial, with this Administration, anything can happen.  And unless Obama and his minions suddenly acquire some testosterone-driven fortitude, Assange will not receive the punishment he so richly deserves.

Y’know, it’s almost like this Administration doesn’t mind Assange’s denigration of America’s stature among the nations of the world that much.  Hmmmm.

Two Treasonous Weasels and an Ineffectual President

The big news from the weekend is the new classified material dump from Wikileaks.  A quarter of a million U.S. Government Documents were distributed around the world, courtesy of girly man and serial rapist Julian Assange.

Sunday, the White House issued a statement, saying:

We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.

According to The New York Times, the Documents include revelations such as:

  • A dangerous standoff with Pakistan over highly enriched uranium, presently in a nuclear reactor.
  • American and South Korean officials have discussed the prospects for a unified Korea, should the North’s economic troubles and political transition lead the state to implode.
  • Bargaining to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison.
  • Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government.
  • A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January.
  • Mixed records against terrorism: Saudi donors remain the chief financiers of Sunni militant groups like Al Qaeda, and the tiny Persian Gulf state of Qatar, a generous host to the American military for years, was the “worst in the region” in counterterrorism efforts, according to a State Department cable.
  • Vlad loves Silvio: American diplomats in Rome reported in 2009 on what their Italian contacts described as an extraordinarily close relationship between Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian prime minister, and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister and business magnate, including “lavish gifts,” lucrative energy contracts and a “shadowy” Russian-speaking Italian go-between.
  • Cables describe the United States’ failing struggle to prevent Syria from supplying arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has amassed a huge stockpile since its 2006 war with Israel.
  • Clashes with Europe over human rights: American officials sharply warned Germany in 2007 not to enforce arrest warrants for Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in a bungled operation in which an innocent German citizen with the same name as a suspected militant was mistakenly kidnapped and held for months in Afghanistan.

Wikileaks gave 251,287 cables,to the Times on the condition of anonymity. Many are unclassified, but, according to the Times,  none are marked “top secret”.   But some 11,000 are classified “secret,” 9,000 are labeled “noforn,” which is government-speak for documents considered too sensitive to be shared with any foreign government, while 4,000 are designated both secret and noforn.

The individual who supplied the documents to Assange, Pfc. Bradley Manning, is a certifiable wacko. That’s a medical term.

Even during his schooldays in his hometown of Crescent, Oklahoma, Bradley Manning clearly walked a different path than the other kids. He preferred hacking computer games instead of playing them, according to his former neighbors.   They also said that he was mouthy and hard-headed about politics, religion, and even about keeping religion out of politics.

He once derisively wrote in an e-mail, that his hometown had “more pews than people”.  While in school, Manning refused to recite the parts of the Pledge of Allegiance that referred to God or do homework assignments that involved the Scriptures. And if a teacher challenged his views, former classmates said, he gave them a bunch of lip back.

According to friends, Manning enlisted in the Army in 2007 in order to find some sort of direction for his life and to help to pay for college.

Somehow, he received a security clearance and trained as an intelligence analyst at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., before he was assigned to the Second Brigade 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y.

While deployed in Iraq, he was far less than a model soldier, receiving reprimands twice, once for assaulting an officer. He even wore custom dog tags that read Humanist…and he kept a fairy wand on his desk.

Per an article on wired.com, Manning said that he was lip-syncing to Lady Gaga as he downloaded all of the documents to Wikileaks.

I really do not wish to even think about what he might have been wearing at the time.

Manning was arrested for leaking classified information to unauthorized persons. He was brought into custody in Kuwait last June.

This last round of leaked documents presents to the world  a U.S. President whose Foreign Policy Initiative, in both concept and delivery, appears more disjointed than a rag doll.  As if the recent economically-driven trips by Obama to Asia and Europe were not embarrassing enough, now Hillary Clinton is having to apologize to all of our allies about the content of the sensitive material, now being plastered on the web and television sets, and in newspapers around the world.

The spin has already started from the Administration, in a feverish attempt to contain and diminish the damage that the two little weasels, Manning and Assange, have caused.  Obama’s problem is:  It’s too late.   He can’t put the Genie back into the bottle.

Now, this false messiah who was going to make the oceans rise and fall, and gather all the world’s nations onto a hillside and lead them in a chorus of I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing is being labelled as the most incompetent and ineffectual President that the world has seen in quite some time. 

On behalf of average Americans everywhere, all I can say to the rest of the world is: 

Welcome to the party, pal!

Ed. Note:  I realize that Assange is a citizen of Australia.  However, he has endangered that world’s safety through his actions, including that of his country.

Obamacare: Midterm Lesson Apparently Not Learned

The march toward a government-run single-payer National Health Care System Continues…and some Republicans want to help!  As we speak, proposals for the oft-delayed Federal Budget are being mulled over that will shrink or do away with the tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation and an integral part of a middle class household budget.

According to a bunch of pin-headed economists, who seem to live in an alternate reality, these proposals will not only raise revenue for our oversized Federal Government, but will

…finally turn Americans into frugal health care consumers by having them face the full costs of their medical decisions.

Yeah, like many of us are having to choose to pay bills and buy food for our families rather than carry Health Insurance.

Welcome to our new Nanny State as engineered by the smartest people in the world. Excuse me, sir. Can I have some more? (Oliver!)

Such a re-engineering was rejected by Democrats only a few months ago, at the height of the health care overhaul debate. But Washington has changed, with Republicans returning to power and widespread fears that the burden of government debt may drag down the economy.

According to former Senate Majority Leader Tom “Puff” Daschle, a leading Democratic adviser on health care:

There is no short-term prospect of enactment. However, in a tax reform (and) deficit reducing context in the long term, the prospects are much better.

He opposes repealing the tax break by itself, but claims that he would be “willing to look” at it with other changes that improve access to quality health care while reducing costs.  Yeah, right.

Labor unions thought that they had intimidated the Democrats into pulling this stuff off the table. Now, it looks like they’ll have to send “the boys” to the Congressional offices again.

Tampering with health care tax breaks is “a terrible step in the wrong direction,” said Mary Kay Henry, the new president of the Service Employees International Union, (Obama’s friends) which represents many hospital workers.

Employer-provided health insurance is part of a worker’s compensation. Unlike wages, it isn’t subject to income and payroll taxes.

If our elected representatives are stupid enough to repeal the tax break, that action would raise several hundred billion dollars a year, depending on the way that they do it. Many of those pin-headed economists stupidly believe that employers would boost pay if they didn’t provide health care. Those who favor doing away with the tax breaks are calling for some sort of tax credit to offset their theft of our money.

There is some light at the end of tunnel. After the 112th Congress is seated in January, they will begin, in the first weeks, to discuss a repeal of Obamacare. Repeal will probably pass in the House, but is considered to have no chance of passing in the Senate, which is still controlled by Democrats.

Then, our elected representatives will start prosecuting political wars over specific parts of the bill, including the tax money needed to make it work. That, in turn, could lead to arguments on spending bills, which could lead to aa shutdown of the federal government.

The major argument will be over the unconstitutional requirement in Obamacare that almost all Americans carry health insurance. In a McClatchy-Marist poll released this week, only 29 percent of those surveyed wanted to keep the individual mandate, while 65 percent called the requirement unconstitutional.  Other polls trend higher toward the mandate being unconstitutional, as does the actual, real-world opinion of the American people.

This argument is liable to end up in the Supreme Court, as several states are trying to opt-out of Obamacare, not interested in co-operating with the benevolent Regime that is presently trying to rule our daily lives.

The results of November 2nd, 2010, sent a very plain message to this administration by the country that they are supposed to be serving, not ruling.  Evidently, somebody is not listening,  President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) thinks that Obamacare is

…a lasting legacy that I am extraordinarily proud of.

This is that same pin-headed, I’m smarter than you are attitude displayed by the economists earlier in this article who think that we need to be taught a lesson as to the real costs of Health Insurance. 

It appears me and an overwhelming majority of the American people that those who need to be a taught a lesson are the tone-deaf, imperious professional politicians and academicians who are making Americans’ lives miserable and running our beloved nation straight into the ground.   If  Obama and his minions did not learn their lesson after the results of the Midterm Election, then, evidently, they need to be taught another one in 2012. 

It is going to be a long, contentious two years.

A Thwarted Man-Caused Disaster and a Fat Lip

The FBI arrested a Somali-born Islamic Terrorist about to attempt to detonate a bomb in a van, just 18 minutes before Portland, Oregon’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Yelling “Allahu Akbar!”[Arabic for “God is great!”],the Terrorist tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.

What Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, of Corvallis, a U.S. citizen, did not know what that the supposed explosives in the van were supplied to him by FBI Operatives.

Mohamud was arrested on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The arrest ended a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.

According to the FBI, the public was never in danger.

Mohamud will appear in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday.

The FBI stated in an affidavit that the case began in August 2009 when Mohamud was e-mailing an unindicted Islamic Terrorist overseas.  In December 2009, while the unindicted Terrorist was in a frontier province of Pakistan, the two of them discussed the possibility of Mohamud traveling to Pakistan to participate in violent jihad.

The Islamic Terrorist then referred Mohamud to a second Islamic Terrorist overseas and provided him with a name and e-mail address. In the months that followed, Mohamud made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the second Terrorist.

Ultimately, an FBI undercover operative contacted Mohamud in a June 2010 e-mail, pretending to be an associate of the first unindicted Terrorist.

Mohamud and the FBI operative met in Portland a month later. Mohamud told the FBI operative that he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated holy war.

It sounds like a Hallmark moment, doesn’t it?

Mohamud also indicated he intended to become “operational”. That meant that he wanted to put an explosion together but needed help. The two got together again in August 2010 in a Portland hotel.

According to the FBI affidavit:

During this meeting, Mohamud explained how he had been thinking of committing some form of violent jihad since the age of 15. Mohamud then told (the FBI operatives) that he had identified a potential target for a bomb: the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square on Nov. 26, 2010.

The FBI operatives even played big brother to the young Terrorist, warning Mohamud several times about how serious his planned actions were, and reminding him that there would be many people, including children, at the event. They told Mohamud that he could abandon his plans at any time with no shame.

An FBI operative asked the Islamic Terrorist:

You know there’s going to be a lot of children there? You know there are gonna be a lot of children there?

Mohamud told him that he was looking for a

huge mass that will … be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.

According to the affidavit, Mohamud wasn’t concerned about law enforcement, explaining that

… It’s in Oregon; and Oregon, like, you know, nobody ever thinks about.

After a meeting on November 4, where they gave him the phony explosives, FBI operatives quizzed Mohamud about whether he was capable of looking at the bodies of those who would be killed in his planned Portland attack.

Mohamud reportedly told the FBI operatives:

I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured.

The religion of peace, indeed.  He evidently had not heard about the upcoming remote cameras in American cities, the airport nekkid Body Scanners, or Big Sis Napolitano and her touchy feely TSA Agents, or he would have been appropriately afraid.

While average Americans were getting scanned and groped in our airports and the FBI was thwarting a  Terror…oops…a man-caused disaster, where was the Leader of the Free World?

The guy who was supposed to be the smartest U.S. President evah, was getting his lip sewn up after playing a pick-up game of basketball. 

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released a public statement nearly three hours after the incident.

The White House would not initially name the person who caused the injury, but later Friday indentified the elbow as belonging to Rey Decerega, director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

No, the Secret Service Agents did not tackle the offending elbow and throw it to the ground. 

Scooter received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office on the ground floor of the White House after getting back home. Doctors used a smaller filament than usually used in these cases, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and leaves a smaller scar.

Y’know, it seems awfully self-centered for a President of the United States to risk his health by playing a contact sport as a hobby while serving our nation.  Why, it almost seems like he puts his own agenda above his service to America.  Hmmm.