Fast & Furious Official Also Employed in Private Sector
ATF’s former Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations, William
McMahon, has been found double dipping his chip into the salsa. The man
who had a significant role in Operation Fast & Furious
is still fully employed by the ATF, while at the same time fully
employed as
Executive Director of the Global Security and Investigations
Group at J.P. Morgan in the Philippines.
The government allowed guns to walk into the hands of the Mexican
drug cartels in Operation Fast & Furious. It is tied to the murders
of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, 300+ Mexican citizens,
and more than 1,000 guns are still missing. No one has been held
accountable. Those connected to the operation have either been allowed
to resign quietly or reassigned to a different position, like Mr.
McMahon.
Oversight
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Ranking Member Charles Grassley
sent a letter to Acting ATF Director B. Todd Jones for some
clarification on “this unusual arrangement.” Chairman Issa and
Senator Grassley express their dissatisfaction that Mr. McMahon was
allowed to stay at the ATF considering his role in Fast & Furious.
They wrote:
“Despite these failings, ATF not only continues to keep him on its payroll, but also authorized him to take several months of annual leave while earning a six-figure salary from ATF and an even larger salary at the same time while working in the private sector.”
Under personnel regulations, the ATF management was under no
obligation to approve McMahon's additional employment. Chairman Issa and
Senator Grassley point out this approval “raises a host of questions
about both the propriety of the arrangement and the judgment of ATF
management.”
Unlike the whistleblowers of Fast & Furious, the ATF is protecting one
of the men involved in the scandal. This arrangement also allows Mr.
McMahon “to reach retirement eligibility while on extended leave for
four to five months and simultaneously begin a second career before
separating from government employment” and they did this before the
Inspector General finished his report on Fast & Furious. Special
Agent John Dodson, the first whistleblower, was told “he must wait until
the Inspector General’s report is complete before the agency will even
consider his simple request for a statement retracting the false
statements made about him by agency leadership.”
The man who blew the lid on a very dangerous program has to wait
until the Inspector General’s report is finished just to get the ATF to
retract damaging statements against him, but the man who had a
significant role in the program is lavished with money and job security.
Luckily for Agent Dodson, the IG report was distributed to the ATF
and Department of Justice after a long 20 months. Hopefully he can get
those statements retracted soon.
Source: breitbart.com
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
FINALLY! An Obama College Classmate Speaks Up.
Excerpt from an article by Obama classmate, Wayne Allyn Root, on August 9, 2012
How did Barry Soetoro (Obummer) pay for all his fancy schools? If he had student loans or scholarships, don’t American students need good grades to maintain student loans? I can only think of one answer…
So here’s my gut. I believe Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. That’s a fact. His mother made him an Indonesian citizen. But… did his mother ever bother to change him back to a U.S. citizen? I’m betting not. He was abandoned by his mother and sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. No one was paying much attention to young Obama, so his citizenship was never changed back. But suddenly as he nears college-age and starts thinking of how to get into college with lousy grades and no money… Obama learns that foreign students have a much easier path being admitted to U.S. universities. And even more amazingly, they get loads of aid and scholarships to attend college for free – something unavailable to U.S. citizens. It’s a completely different path – a path so easy that even a kid with no father… no mother to be found… no money… and lousy grades can get admitted to the best colleges… as a poor foreigner with an exotic background.
So a plan is hatched. Obama uses his Indonesian passport and citizenship to get into college. Suddenly even Ivy League Columbia University is a possibility for a foreign student from Indonesia. And it’s all paid for by the taxpayers.
That would explain how a poor student who rarely attended class and got mediocre grades, and with no money, was able to get accepted and pay for Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law. The door magically opened for a foreign student. Every college needs one or two bright exotic foreigners to create “diversity.”
Now the sad reality is there is some U.S. student — a Valedictorian of his or her school — who never got to go to Columbia or Harvard Law because Obama fraudulently took their place.
That would also explain the great mystery of how in the summer of 1981 Barry Soetoro was able to travel to Pakistan when no U.S. citizen was allowed to travel there. An American couldn’t make that trip…but no problem if you’re an Indonesian citizen using an Indonesian passport?
For the full article go to: http://personalliberty.com/2012/08/09/obamas-college-classmate-speaks-out-the-scandal-at-columbia-that-ends-the-obama-presidency/
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How did Barry Soetoro (Obummer) pay for all his fancy schools? If he had student loans or scholarships, don’t American students need good grades to maintain student loans? I can only think of one answer…
So here’s my gut. I believe Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. That’s a fact. His mother made him an Indonesian citizen. But… did his mother ever bother to change him back to a U.S. citizen? I’m betting not. He was abandoned by his mother and sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. No one was paying much attention to young Obama, so his citizenship was never changed back. But suddenly as he nears college-age and starts thinking of how to get into college with lousy grades and no money… Obama learns that foreign students have a much easier path being admitted to U.S. universities. And even more amazingly, they get loads of aid and scholarships to attend college for free – something unavailable to U.S. citizens. It’s a completely different path – a path so easy that even a kid with no father… no mother to be found… no money… and lousy grades can get admitted to the best colleges… as a poor foreigner with an exotic background.
So a plan is hatched. Obama uses his Indonesian passport and citizenship to get into college. Suddenly even Ivy League Columbia University is a possibility for a foreign student from Indonesia. And it’s all paid for by the taxpayers.
That would explain how a poor student who rarely attended class and got mediocre grades, and with no money, was able to get accepted and pay for Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law. The door magically opened for a foreign student. Every college needs one or two bright exotic foreigners to create “diversity.”
Now the sad reality is there is some U.S. student — a Valedictorian of his or her school — who never got to go to Columbia or Harvard Law because Obama fraudulently took their place.
That would also explain the great mystery of how in the summer of 1981 Barry Soetoro was able to travel to Pakistan when no U.S. citizen was allowed to travel there. An American couldn’t make that trip…but no problem if you’re an Indonesian citizen using an Indonesian passport?
For the full article go to: http://personalliberty.com/2012/08/09/obamas-college-classmate-speaks-out-the-scandal-at-columbia-that-ends-the-obama-presidency/
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
10 Concepts Liberals Talk About Incessantly But Don't Understand
Re-posted from
1) Being Open Minded: To a liberal, this has nothing at all to do with seriously considering other people's ideas. To the contrary, liberals define being "open-minded" as agreeing with them. What could be more close-minded than assuming that not only are you right, but that you don't even need to consider another viewpoint because anyone who disagrees must be evil?
2) Racism: Liberals start with the presumption that only white people who don't belong to the Democratic Party can be racist. So, for example, even if Jeremiah Wright can make it clear that he hates white people because of their skin color or if liberals take an explicitly racist political position, like suggesting that black people are too stupid and incompetent to get identification to vote, they can't be racist. White Republicans, on the other hand, are generally assumed to be racist by default, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary.
3) Fairness: In all fairness, I must admit that fairness is an arbitrary concept. So, you could make the argument that no one could get "fairness" wrong. Still, liberals do because they don't make any effort to actually "be fair." As a practical matter, liberals define "fairness" as taking as much as possible from people who they don't think are going to vote for them and giving it to people who may vote for them in return for their ill gotten largesse. Certainly conservatives, libertarians, and moderates might disagree about how much money to take from the wealthy to redistribute to the poor or how to help the disadvantaged, but the only liberal answer to the question, "How much is enough?" is "more."
4) Greed: To a liberal, believing that you pay too much in taxes or even opposing paying more in taxes is greedy. In actuality, wanting to loot as much money as possible that someone else has earned to use for your own purposes, which is what liberals do, is a much better example of greed.
5) Hate: Liberals often define simple disagreement with them on issues like gay marriage, tax rates, or abortion as hatred. No matter how well a position is explained, or the logical underpinnings behind it, it's chalked up to hate. Meanwhile, the angriest, most vicious, most hateful people in all of politics are liberals railing against what they say is "hatred." This irony is completely lost on the Left.
6) Investment: Actual investments involve putting money or resources into a project in hopes that they will appreciate in value. Liberals skip the second half of that equation. To them, an "investment" is taking someone else's tax dollars and putting it into a project that liberals approve of and whether a profit is made or lost is so irrelevant that they typically don't even bother to measure the results.
7) Charity: Contributing your own money or time to a good cause is charity. Liberals view themselves as charitable if they take someone else's tax dollars and give it away to people they hope will vote for them in return. At a minimum, they should at least credit the taxpayers who paid for the money they gave away for the charity, although it's not really charity if it's involuntary. Of course, there's nothing charitable about asking someone else to sacrifice for your gain, which could actually be better described as selfish.
8) Patriotism: Liberals love America the way a wife beater loves his spouse. That's why they're always beating up the country "for its own good." Doesn't the country understand that liberals have to hit it in the mouth because they LOVE IT SO MUCH?!?!? Of course, the conventional definition of patriotism, which is loving your country and wishing it well, isn't one that liberals can wrap their heads around.
9) Tolerance: In a free, open, and pluralistic society, there are all sorts of behaviors that we may have to tolerate, even though we don't approve of those activities. Liberals don't get this distinction. For one thing, they don't understand the difference between tolerance and acceptance. They also don't extend any of the tolerance they're agitating for to people who disagree with them. Liberals silence people who disagree with them at every opportunity which is, dare we say it, an extremely intolerant way to behave.
10) Diversity: What liberals mean by "diversity" is that they want a broad range of people from different races, colors, and creeds who have identical political views. A black or Hispanic conservative doesn't contribute to "diversity" in liberal eyes because he actually has diverse views. Incredible role models for women like Sarah Palin can't be feminists to liberals because she doesn't share the same liberal beliefs as sexist pigs like Anthony Weiner and Bill Maher. How can you have any meaningful "diversity" when everyone has to think the same way?
1) Being Open Minded: To a liberal, this has nothing at all to do with seriously considering other people's ideas. To the contrary, liberals define being "open-minded" as agreeing with them. What could be more close-minded than assuming that not only are you right, but that you don't even need to consider another viewpoint because anyone who disagrees must be evil?
2) Racism: Liberals start with the presumption that only white people who don't belong to the Democratic Party can be racist. So, for example, even if Jeremiah Wright can make it clear that he hates white people because of their skin color or if liberals take an explicitly racist political position, like suggesting that black people are too stupid and incompetent to get identification to vote, they can't be racist. White Republicans, on the other hand, are generally assumed to be racist by default, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary.
3) Fairness: In all fairness, I must admit that fairness is an arbitrary concept. So, you could make the argument that no one could get "fairness" wrong. Still, liberals do because they don't make any effort to actually "be fair." As a practical matter, liberals define "fairness" as taking as much as possible from people who they don't think are going to vote for them and giving it to people who may vote for them in return for their ill gotten largesse. Certainly conservatives, libertarians, and moderates might disagree about how much money to take from the wealthy to redistribute to the poor or how to help the disadvantaged, but the only liberal answer to the question, "How much is enough?" is "more."
4) Greed: To a liberal, believing that you pay too much in taxes or even opposing paying more in taxes is greedy. In actuality, wanting to loot as much money as possible that someone else has earned to use for your own purposes, which is what liberals do, is a much better example of greed.
5) Hate: Liberals often define simple disagreement with them on issues like gay marriage, tax rates, or abortion as hatred. No matter how well a position is explained, or the logical underpinnings behind it, it's chalked up to hate. Meanwhile, the angriest, most vicious, most hateful people in all of politics are liberals railing against what they say is "hatred." This irony is completely lost on the Left.
6) Investment: Actual investments involve putting money or resources into a project in hopes that they will appreciate in value. Liberals skip the second half of that equation. To them, an "investment" is taking someone else's tax dollars and putting it into a project that liberals approve of and whether a profit is made or lost is so irrelevant that they typically don't even bother to measure the results.
7) Charity: Contributing your own money or time to a good cause is charity. Liberals view themselves as charitable if they take someone else's tax dollars and give it away to people they hope will vote for them in return. At a minimum, they should at least credit the taxpayers who paid for the money they gave away for the charity, although it's not really charity if it's involuntary. Of course, there's nothing charitable about asking someone else to sacrifice for your gain, which could actually be better described as selfish.
8) Patriotism: Liberals love America the way a wife beater loves his spouse. That's why they're always beating up the country "for its own good." Doesn't the country understand that liberals have to hit it in the mouth because they LOVE IT SO MUCH?!?!? Of course, the conventional definition of patriotism, which is loving your country and wishing it well, isn't one that liberals can wrap their heads around.
9) Tolerance: In a free, open, and pluralistic society, there are all sorts of behaviors that we may have to tolerate, even though we don't approve of those activities. Liberals don't get this distinction. For one thing, they don't understand the difference between tolerance and acceptance. They also don't extend any of the tolerance they're agitating for to people who disagree with them. Liberals silence people who disagree with them at every opportunity which is, dare we say it, an extremely intolerant way to behave.
10) Diversity: What liberals mean by "diversity" is that they want a broad range of people from different races, colors, and creeds who have identical political views. A black or Hispanic conservative doesn't contribute to "diversity" in liberal eyes because he actually has diverse views. Incredible role models for women like Sarah Palin can't be feminists to liberals because she doesn't share the same liberal beliefs as sexist pigs like Anthony Weiner and Bill Maher. How can you have any meaningful "diversity" when everyone has to think the same way?
John Hawkins
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
NHS and Canada's Healthcare Services!
First, they have a whole Wikipedia page "criticisms of the NHS"
waiting lists...superbugs...paying twice...
Oh,
heres an article from 2000, lets see, NHS managers to blame for
problems...due to poor management not lack of funding says this BBC
article...
11 years later, 2011 NHS problems continue to haunt coalition government...seems like they didn't solve anything in a decade...
Just today! boy dies of thirst due to lazy nurses in hospital!
seems like the british medical staff aren't as professional as they
could be...wonder why?
I can't wait for Obamacare to kick in!
let's see, Canada?
Heres a bit of news off Wikipedia, lets see if they're doing any better?
The median wait time in Canada to see a special physician is a little over four weeks with 89.5% waiting fewer than 90 days.[52]
The median wait time for diagnostic services such as MRI and CAT scans [53] is two weeks with 86.4% waiting fewer than 90 days.[52]
The median wait time for surgery is four weeks with 82.2% waiting fewer than 90 days.[52]
Another study by the Commonwealth Fund found
that 57% of Canadians reported waiting 30 days (4 weeks) or more to see
a specialist, broadly in line with the current official statistics. A
quarter (24%) of all Canadians waited 4 hours or more in the emergency
room.[54]
Sounds great! I'll just be over here
reading Golf Magazine waiting my 4 hours with a bullet in me in the ER
waiting room, no worries.
Heres something to look forward to:
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
OBAMA IS ONE, BIG, LYING JERK!
Obama said recently on his Campaign Bus tour that Romney’s experience has been in owning companies that outsource jobs, while “my experience has been in saving the American automobile industry.”
First of all – this outsourcing comment is absolute nonsense. If we didn’t outsource jobs your iPhone would cost you $2500 and an iPad would be around $4000. Thanks to outsourcing you can buy a computer – a computer that vastly increases your own job performance and profitability – for under $1000. End outsourcing and you’ll be paying ten grand for that computer. And for the dedicated Obama voters .. those Nikes would cost you hundreds of dollars more per pair.
And what about this “saving the American automobile industry” crap! Obama did NOT save the American automobile industry. Obama saved the United Auto Worker’s Union (UAW).
The automobile industry was going to survive one way or the other. That’s what bankruptcy laws are for. General Motors, for instance, probably would have filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, just as Delta Airlines and many other prominent American companies have done. GM would then have abrogated some contracts, revised others, streamlined operations, shut some plants … or, in other words, reorganize! That’s what a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is! Reorganization! Now this reorganization idea did not sit that well with the UAW. Under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy GM could have gone to the UAW and forced them into contract concessions involving both pay and benefits .. including an end to the asinine jobs banks .. and this would be very bad for union leaders indeed. So the union bosses got to Obama .. and Obama stepped in. Truth is, Obama just threw the law aside … tossed hundreds of years of bankruptcy law aside … and, as a ruler, rather than a leader, would do, forced the parties into an arrangement that gave the unions what they wanted while royally screwing secured creditors.
Where are we now? GM is operating, but not doing all that well. The Chevy Volt is a government-subsidized boondoggle. And the federal government still owns massive amounts of GM stock. Now Obama promised that this stock would be sold, the taxpayers would make a profit, and GM would return to private ownership. Hasn’t happened. Why? Because if Obama sold that GM stock right now the U.S. taxpayers would take a $35 Billion dollar hit. That’s Billion, not million. Pay attention.
Oh .. and don’t forget the hundreds of GM dealers that Obama ordered closed .. and the employees of those dealers who lost their jobs.
Obama is a one, big, lying jerk....and this is just one example of how he proves it time and time again.
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First of all – this outsourcing comment is absolute nonsense. If we didn’t outsource jobs your iPhone would cost you $2500 and an iPad would be around $4000. Thanks to outsourcing you can buy a computer – a computer that vastly increases your own job performance and profitability – for under $1000. End outsourcing and you’ll be paying ten grand for that computer. And for the dedicated Obama voters .. those Nikes would cost you hundreds of dollars more per pair.
And what about this “saving the American automobile industry” crap! Obama did NOT save the American automobile industry. Obama saved the United Auto Worker’s Union (UAW).
The automobile industry was going to survive one way or the other. That’s what bankruptcy laws are for. General Motors, for instance, probably would have filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, just as Delta Airlines and many other prominent American companies have done. GM would then have abrogated some contracts, revised others, streamlined operations, shut some plants … or, in other words, reorganize! That’s what a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is! Reorganization! Now this reorganization idea did not sit that well with the UAW. Under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy GM could have gone to the UAW and forced them into contract concessions involving both pay and benefits .. including an end to the asinine jobs banks .. and this would be very bad for union leaders indeed. So the union bosses got to Obama .. and Obama stepped in. Truth is, Obama just threw the law aside … tossed hundreds of years of bankruptcy law aside … and, as a ruler, rather than a leader, would do, forced the parties into an arrangement that gave the unions what they wanted while royally screwing secured creditors.
Where are we now? GM is operating, but not doing all that well. The Chevy Volt is a government-subsidized boondoggle. And the federal government still owns massive amounts of GM stock. Now Obama promised that this stock would be sold, the taxpayers would make a profit, and GM would return to private ownership. Hasn’t happened. Why? Because if Obama sold that GM stock right now the U.S. taxpayers would take a $35 Billion dollar hit. That’s Billion, not million. Pay attention.
Oh .. and don’t forget the hundreds of GM dealers that Obama ordered closed .. and the employees of those dealers who lost their jobs.
Obama is a one, big, lying jerk....and this is just one example of how he proves it time and time again.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
DO LIBERALS EVER SPEND THEIR OWN MONEY ON ANYTHING?
Is there no limit as to how low class these moochers can be?
Just when you thought the Obama campaign couldn’t get any more desperate, they come up with this: the Obama Event Registry, asking supporters who are getting married, having a birthday, or celebrating an anniversary to direct gift-givers to Obama’s re-election website.
This is truly insulting. Young couples have been the folks hardest hit by the Obama economy; unemployment rate among the young is at all-time highs. Yet Obama suggests that we should send money not to those couples, but to the campaign of the man who has put them on the bread lines.
Will these moochers ever stop trying to get their hands on our wallets?
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Just when you thought the Obama campaign couldn’t get any more desperate, they come up with this: the Obama Event Registry, asking supporters who are getting married, having a birthday, or celebrating an anniversary to direct gift-givers to Obama’s re-election website.
This is truly insulting. Young couples have been the folks hardest hit by the Obama economy; unemployment rate among the young is at all-time highs. Yet Obama suggests that we should send money not to those couples, but to the campaign of the man who has put them on the bread lines.
Will these moochers ever stop trying to get their hands on our wallets?
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MODERN DAY VERSION OF 'TRAIL OF TEARS!'
That Elizabeth Warren, the wealthy libtard who is trying to unseat Republican Scott Brown in the U.S. Senate, exploited the rich history of our Native cultures for personal gain and academic accolades while actual indigenous students struggled, is reprehensible.
After succeeding in that exploitation and personal gain, Warren refused to give back to the culture she exploited. How much would it have meant to have a real "woman of color," a real American Indian female educator at Harvard who used her position to bring greater awareness to the educational needs of indigenous Americans?
Instead Elizabeth Warren snubs Cherokee activists when they try to meet with her. Check it out.
Just another glaring example of liberal hypocrisy!
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